Dr. Ido Hevroni
The Core Program
B.A., Bar Ilan University
Dr. Ido Hevroni is chair of the Core Curriculum and a senior lecturer at Shalem College. Previously the college’s founding educational director, he is a scholar of rabbinic literature and teaches Talmud and Midrash, classical literature, and theories of depth psychology. He is among Israel’s leading experts on liberal arts education and frequently grants master classes on pedagogy. Hevroni formerly served as academic director of the Shalem IDF Educational Leadership Program and as an associate dean at the Mandel School for Educational Leadership, and currently serves as a volunteer lecturer for various IDF units and pre-military preparatory schools. His research and writing connect the practical and realistic aspects of metalcraft (i.e., blacksmithing and goldsmithing) with the conceptual depths of Talmudic and classical literature.
Selected Publications
Books
Holy Beings: Wild Creatures in the Rabbinic Academy (Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth Books, 2016). (Hebrew)
Articles in Journals and Books
“Turning the Hearts of the Children to Their Parents: The Education of R. Elazar Son of R. Shimon (Pesiqta de Rab Kahana 11),” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 33 (2024), pp. 67-91.
"R. Elʿazar Son of R. Šimʿon the Thief Catcher (b. Bava Metsiʿa 83a-84a)," Journal of Jewish Studies 74(1) (2023), pp. 5-29.
"Wilderness as Wonderland: Talmudic Stories and Modern Israeli Fantasy," in: Danielle Gurevitch and Elana Gomel (eds.), International Fantasy: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 205–221.
"Turning the Hearts of the Children to their Parents: The Education of R. Elazar Son of R. Shimon (Pesiqta de Rab Kahana 11)," Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 33 (2023), pp. 67-91 (Hebrew).
"The Story of R. Yohanan and Resh Laqish and its Place in the Story Cycle of R. Elazar b R. Shimon (bBM 83a–84a)," JSIJ 22 (2022). (Hebrew)
"Why Are You Engaged: Yalta and the Sages," Reshit: Studies in Judaism 6 (2022), pp. 119-147. (Hebrew)
"Yalta – The Third Rib: Redaction and Meaning in Bavli Berakhot, Chapter 7,” Hebrew Union College Annual 91 (2020), pp. 1-52.