Ezra Tzfadya is a doctoral candidate in Islamic Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. His dissertation is titled The Imperative of Guardianship? Modes of Esotericism, the Idea of Theocracy, and the Textual Management of Modernity in Shiite Islam and Judaism. He holds a M.A. in Religion from Princeton University, and a B.A. in German and Arabic from Dartmouth College. He is the author of Living the Truth of a Free Europe. Community, Philosophy, and Responsibility in the Writings of Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin, which appeared in the 2008 edition of the Rosenzweig Jahrbuch.
