Robert Bonfil

Robert Bonfil
Hebrew: רוברט בונפיל
Born	1937 (age 87–88)
Academic work
Discipline	history
Sub-discipline	Jewish history
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Main interests	history of the Jews in Italy history of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire
Notable works	Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy

Robert (Roberto, Reuven) Bonfil (Hebrew: רוברט בונפיל) is an important scholar of pre-modern Jewish history and modern Jewish historiography. He is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His work focuses on the history of the Jews in Italy and the history of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire. He was born in 1937 in Greece and is a Holocaust survivor.

Publications

• Bonfil, Robert (1994). Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy. Translated by Oldcorn, Anthony. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07350-0.
• Bonfil, Robert (2012). Jews in Byzantium: dialectics of minority and majority cultures. Jerusalem studies in religion and culture. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-20355-6.