Robert Bonfil
Israeli historian
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Robert (Roberto, Reuven) Bonfil (Hebrew: רוברט בונפיל) is an Israeli scholar of pre-modern Jewish history and modern Jewish historiography.[1][2] He is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[3] His work focuses on the history of the Jews in Italy and the history of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire.[4] He was born in 1937 in Greece and is a Holocaust survivor.[5][6][7]
Born1937 (age 88–89)
Disciplinehistory
Sub-disciplineJewish history
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
Robert Bonfil | |
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| Hebrew: רוברט בונפיל | |
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| Born | 1937 (age 88–89) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | history |
| Sub-discipline | Jewish history |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Main interests | history of the Jews in Italy history of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire |
| Notable works | Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy |
Publications
- Bonfil, Robert (1994). Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy. Translated by Oldcorn, Anthony. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07350-0.
- Bonfil, Robert (2009). History and Folklore in a Medieval Jewish Chronicle: The Family Chronicle of Aḥima'az Ben Paltiel. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-17385-9.
- Bonfil, Robert (2012). Jews in Byzantium: dialectics of minority and majority cultures. Jerusalem studies in religion and culture. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-20355-6.