Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer

[4] She received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where she was later employed as a Professor of Jewish mysticism.

[5] Her main research was in the realm of Hasidism, particularly regarding the Maggid Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch' and his students.

She also wrote about Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and many other figures in modern Jewish Mysticism.

She and her students collected hundreds of copies of manuscripts of the Zohar in order to prepare a multi-volume critical edition, but due to her premature death, the project was never actualized.

After her death much of her library, including the Zohar manuscript copies, and copies of manuscripts of Rabbi Kook, became part of the Gershom Scholem Collection at the National Library of Israel.