Nicham Ross is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.In recent years he has served as Director of The Gandel Institute for Adult Jewish Learning at The Hebrew Univerity of Jerusalem.His pervious book (Masoret Ahuva u-Senu`a, Be`er-Sheva 2000) focused on Neo-Hasidic writings at the begining of the 20th century