Agata Paluch received her PhD in Hebrew and Jewish studies from University College London in 2013. Her work has focused on the interplay between Jewish and non-Jewish esoteric traditions in East-Central Europe, the histories and literatures of Jewish mysticism, and Jewish manuscript cultures in early modern Europe. She held postdoctoral fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Herbert D. Katz Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has also studied history and Jewish thought in Krakow, Warsaw, and Jerusalem and, in addition, has worked as a cataloguer of Hebrew manuscripts for the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project at the British Library.

Agata Paluch's academic interests encompass Jewish history and religion, the history and literatures of Jewish mysticism, and material text cultures of medieval and early modern period, with emphasis on Eastern and Central Europe. Her current research project concerns the materiality of textual transmission, particularly in the context of the production of kabbalistic manuscripts in the age of nascent print. It examines the role and forms of Jewish manuscript culture in early modern East-Central Europe in the processes of transmission and circulation of knowledge. 

Monograph:

• Megalleh ‘Amuqot: The Enoch-Metatron Tradition in the Kabbalah of Nathan Neta Shapira ofKraków (1585-1633), Los Angeles-Jerusalem: Cherub Press, 2014

Edited volume:

• Representing Jewish Thought: Proceedings of the 2015 Institute of Jewish Studies Conference Held in Honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert, ed. Agata Paluch (IJS Studies in Judaica; Leiden: Brill, 2021)

• Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity, ed. Agata Paluch, Patrick B. Koch, special issue of European Journal of Jewish Studies 16.1 (2022)

Articles/Book chapters:

• “Metatron Revisited: Prayers, Adjurations, and the Fashioning of Interpretive Authority in Jewish Mystical, Magical, and Practical Texts,” Entangled Religions12.6 (2022)

• “The Circulation of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscript and Print: The Case of Early Modern East-Central Europe,’ in Print Culture at the Crossroads: The Book and Central Europe, ed. Elizabeth Dillenburg, Howard Louthan, & Drew Thomas (The Library of the Written Word 94; Leiden: Brill, 2021), 472-493
• “Copying, Compiling, Commonplacing: Sefer Heshek and the Kabbalah of Divine Names in Early Modern Ashkenaz”, in Representing Jewish Thought: Proceedings of the 2015 IJS Conference Held in Honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert, ed. Agata Paluch (IJS Studies in Judaica; Leiden: Brill, 2021), 100-125
• “Intentionality and Kabbalistic Practices in Early Modern East-Central Europe”, Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 19 (2019), 83-111 
• “The Ashkenazi Profile of Kabbalah: Some Aspects of Megalleh ‘Amuqot ReNaV Ofanim ‘al Ve-Ethanan of Nathan Shapira of Kraków’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 25 (2011), 109-133 

Public engagement:

• “Making Sense of Recipes for Amulets and Natural Magic, Kabbalistic Style (Marginalia Included),” The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science and Medicine, October 07, 2021: https://recipes.hypotheses.org/18113
• “Writing on Hands: Practical and Kabbalistic Manual Devices,” Knowledge in Circulation: The Reception and Transmission of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Manuscripts and Print in Early Modern East-Central Europe, January 16, 2021: https://esknowcirc.hypotheses.org/297 
• “Practical Kabbalah and Practical Knowledge: Kabbalistic Manuals and Natural Knowledge in Early Modern East-Central Europe,” History of Knowledge, April 11, 2019: https://historyofknowledge.net/2019/04/11/practical-kabbalah/
• “The Power of Language in Jewish Kabbalah and Magic: How To Do (and Undo) Things with Words,” The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts, February 29, 2016: https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts/articles/the-power-of-language-in-jewish-kabbalah 

Translations and source editions [Hebrew-Polish]:

• Najstarsze pamiętniki Żydów krakowskich: Sefer megilat rabbi Meir, Megilat ejwa, ed. & trans. Agata Paluch, Leszek Kwiatkowski (Żydzi. Polska. Autobiografia; Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2020), 194 pp.
• Wieża Dawida: Chasydzi Lelowscy, ed. Michał Galas, Mirosław Skrzypczyk, trans. Agata Paluch, Wojciech Tworek (Kraków: Austeria, 2018), 253 pp.