# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yehuda-liebes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:36:11.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yehuda-liebes"
name: "Yehuda Liebes"
slug: "yehuda-liebes"
description: "Yehuda Liebes is an Israeli academic and scholar. He is the Gershom Scholem Professor Emeritus of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Considered a leading scholar of Kabbalah, his research interests also include Jewish myth, Sabbateanism, and the links between Judaism and ancient Greek religion, Christianity, and Islam. He is the recipient of the 1997 Bialik Prize, the 1999 Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Research, the 2006 EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture, and the 2017 Israel Prize in Jewish thought."
tagline: "Israeli academic, scholar of Kabbalah"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yehuda_Liebes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.9
  momentum:             3.829787234042553
  historical:           5.680922666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Yehuda Liebes"
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    title: "يهودا ليبيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يهودا عزيزى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Либес, Иехуда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Liebes"
    title: "Yehuda Liebes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A1"
    title: "יהודה ליבס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump