Modern Antisemitism and the Study of Ancient Judaism (Part 1) - From Heinrich Graetz on Josephus to an Unnoticed Root of Modern German Antisemitism
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Professor Daniel Schwartz
Daniel R. Schwartz, the Herbst Family Professor emeritus of Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was born in Syracuse in 1952; after elementary studies there and secondary school in Silver Spring, Md., he moved to Israel in 1971, where he has been at HUJI's Dept. of Jewish History ever since. After completing his studies, culminating with a doctoral dissertation on ancient attitudes to the Temple cult, he was appointed to that department's academic staff. His research focuses on…