Ada Rapoport-Albert

Ada Rapoport-Albert (Hebrew: עדה רפפורט-אלברט; 26 October 1945 – 18 June 2020) was an Israeli-British scholar whose scholarship focused on Jewish mysticism, Sabbateanism, and gender in Hasidic Judaism.

[1][2][3] Rapoport-Albert also served as the president of the Jewish Historical Society of England.

[1][4] Ada Rapoport-Albert was born in Tel Aviv[5] in 1945 to Zalman and Alma Rapoport.

Under Weiss's supervision, Rapoport-Albert began writing her doctoral dissertation on the Hasidic master, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.

After a short period at Oxford, Rapoport-Albert became an Associate Professor in Jewish History at University College London (UCL).