Robert (Roberto, Reuven) Bonfil () an important scholar of pre-modern

Jewish history Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their Jewish peoplehood, nation, Judaism, religion, and Jewish culture, culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions and cultures. Jews originated from the Israelites and H ...

and

modern Jewish historiography Modern Jewish historiography is the modern iteration of Jewish history, Jewish historical narrative writing and historical literature. While Jewish Oral Torah, oral history and the collection of commentaries in the Midrash and Talmud are ancient, ...

. He is a professor at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

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His work focuses on the

history of the Jews in Italy The history of the Jews in Italy spans more than two thousand years to the present. The Jewish presence in Italy dates to the pre-Christian Roman period and has continued, despite periods of extreme persecution and expulsions, until the prese ...

and the

history of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire Jews were numerous and had significant roles throughout the history of the Byzantine Empire. Background and legal standing After the decline of the Greek-speaking Hellenistic Judaism in ancient times, the use of the Greek language and the inte ...

. He was born in 1937 in Greece and is a Holocaust survivo

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonfil, Robert 1937 births Living people Historians of Jews and Judaism Greek emigrants to Israel University of Turin alumni Italian Jews