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Daniel R. Schwartz
Daniel R. Schwartz (born 1952; ) is a professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a scholar of Hellenistic Judaism, Flavius Josephus, the Second Temple Period, and the book 2 Maccabees. Background Daniel Schwartz was born in the United States in 1952. He immigrated to Israel (aliyah) in 1971. He earned a Ph.D in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980, studying under Menahem Stern. He chaired the university's Department of Jewish History between the years 1992 and 1994. He became full professor in 1995. Schwartz served on the Committee for the Itzhak Ben-Zvi Award of the Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi Institute. In 2011 he was appointed academic head of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies. Works Schwartz published the book ''Agrippa I'' in 1987 in Hebrew on Herod Agrippa, the last king of the Herodian dynasty. The book won the 1988 Arnold Wischnitzer Prize. It received a translation into English in 1990. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew University Of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened in April 1925. It is the second-oldest Israeli university, having been founded 30 years before the establishment of the State of Israel but six years after the older Technion university. The HUJI has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest library for Jewish studies—the National Library of Israel—is located on its Edmond J. Safra campus in the Givat Ram neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The university has five affiliated teaching hospitals (including the Hadassah Medical Center), seven faculties, more than 100 research centers, and 315 academic departments. , one-third of all the doctoral candidates in Israel were studying at the HUJI. Among its first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jewish Quarterly Review
''The Jewish Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Jewish studies. It is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania). The editors-in-chief are David N. Myers (UCLA) and Natalie Dohrmann (University of Pennsylvania). It is available online through Project MUSE and JSTOR. The journal was established in London in 1889 by Israel Abrahams and Claude G. Montefiore as an English-language concurrent of the French ''Revue des études juives'', itself an outgrowth of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. It is the oldest English-language journal of Judaic scholarship. References External links * The Jewish Quarterly Reviewat JSTOR JSTOR (; short for ''Journal Storage'') is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
