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Historian

Isaiah Gafni (born ) is a historian of Judaism in the Second Temple and Talmudic periods. He is the Sol Rosenbloom Chair of Jewish History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and president (since ) of Shalem College in Jerusalem.

Biography

Isaiah Gafni was born in New York.

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He immigrated to Israel in ^[1] He has a Ph.D in Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (), under the direction of Menahem Stern and Shmuel Safrai; MA, Hebrew University (); BA, Hebrew University ().

Academic career

Gafni is interested in the attitudes of the Jews of the Second Temple towards the Land of Israel. His research focuses on how Judaism was reshaped during the years the Jews after the Temple's destruction.

He has authored numerous academic articles, three books, and he edited over fifteen books regarding a wide range of topics in Jewish History.

Gafni's focus is research on political, social and religious Jewish life during the Second Temple Peri