Israel Yuval


Israel Jacob Yuval is an Israeli academic who is Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also the founder of Scholion - Interdisciplinary research center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies.
Yuval is the academic director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and the Teddy Kollek Chair for the Study of Cultural Aspects of Vienna and Jerusalem.

Career

From 1998-2008, Yuval was responsible for the research project Germania-Judaica. In 2002 he founded Scholion and was its director until 2010. Between 2011-2012 he was a co-editor of the Tarbiz journal.
Yuval's works have argued that the confrontation with Christianity is the driving force behind Judaism in the time of Midrash and Talmud.

Works