Rabbi Daniel Reiser, PhD, is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at Hertzog College, Jerusalem. Reiser specialises in Hasidic philosophy and psychology; modern Mysticism; theology in the Shoah; comparative Religion; and Orality, the Written Word, and the Relationship between Manuscripts and Printing.

His book Vision as a Mirror (2014) was awarded the World Union of Jewish Studies Matanel Prize for the best book in Jewish Thought published during the years 2013-2014 and his book Sermons from the Years of Rage (2017) was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research 2018. His latest books are Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism (2018); and coedited: Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal: The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (2021)