Moshe Rosman (; born 1949) is an Israeli historian specializing in the history of Polish Jews. He is a professor emeritus at the Department of Jewish History in

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

Awards

1996: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish History category for ''Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov'' 2000: Milewski Foundation Prize (Poland) 2009:

National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1943, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of qual ...

(Collections) 2010: Jordan Schnitzer Award of the Association for Jewish Studies (co-winner with

Francesca Trivellato Francesca Trivellato (born 1970) is an Italian historian, focusing on cultural, economic and social history in the early modern period. Her publications have covered Italian history, Jewish history and trade and cultural networks. She is currentl ...

) 2016:

Honorary Doctorate An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or '' ad hon ...

University of Wrocław The University of Wrocław (, UWr; ) is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland. It is the largest institution of higher learning in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, with over 100,000 graduates since 1945, including some 1,900 researcher ...

Personal life

Moshe Rosman is an observant Jew and is married to Lynne Reed and father of six children. He has settled in Israel in 1979 and currently lives in Jerusalem.

References

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