Benjamin Z. Kedar
Benjamin Ze'ev Kedar (born 2 September 1938) is professor emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was president of the international Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (1995–2002), chairman of the board of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2000–12) and vice-president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2010–15). He is 2019 The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture laureate in history , the 2020 Israel Prize laureate in history research. and in 2024 he won the Prix Gustave Schlumberger de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Benjamin Z. Kedar | |
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| Born | 2 September 1938 Nitra, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, academic, scholar |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Hebrew University & Israel Institute for Advanced Studies |
| Main interests | Comparative history, crusades, medieval language texts |
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