Philip Wexler (1943-2023) [1] was a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
After retirement he was visiting professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.
Wexler was William Scandling Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Rochester.
He then moved to Jerusalem where he did field research on newly religious youth, and studied Jewish mystical texts in Hebrew and Yiddish.
During 2008–2009, together with Jonathan Garb, he convened a year- long working group at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, on “Sociology and Anthropology of Jewish Mysticism in Comparative Perspective.” The working group meetings and conferences produced a book, “After Spirituality: Studies in Comparative Mysticism,” [6]