The Division for Development and Public Relations     AVRAHAM  GROSSMAN,  PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF JEWISH HISTORY  Status : EMERITUS Birth place : TIBERIAS Office Phone: Fax: E-Mail: msgrossi@mscc.huji.ac.il U.R.L:   Department Faculty   HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description   Academic Degree   Institution Year Ph.D. HEBREW UNIV. 1974   Academic Position   Year EMERITUS 2004 PROFESSOR 1987 ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1983 SENIOR LECTURER 1978 LECTURER 1976   Administrative Position   From To Chair, Ben-Zvi Inst. for Study of Jewish Communities in the East 1995 1996   External Academic Positions Visiting Scholar, Harvard Univ. Visiting Prof.: Ohio St. Univ.; Yale Univ., 1988 Awards and Honors: Wiznitzer Prize, 1982; Holon Hochmat, 1982; Bialik Prize, 1997; Israel Prize, 2003. Member, Israel Academy of Sci. & Humanities   Research Interests History of the Jewish people in the Middle Ages, especially in the Muslim Caliphate, Germany and France until the 12th century. Exilarchate in Eastern Caliphate: Jewish family, society, community organization. The Jewish-Christian polemic and the sages of Ashkenaz and France.   Research Projects The early sages of France (950-1096). The Jewish community in Muslim Spain. The relationship between the social structure and spiritual activity The Bible exegesis of R. Joseph Karo and its historical importance. Jewish women in Europe in the Middle Ages.   Selected Publications Publication Title   Year Rashi, The Man and His Work. Jerusalem, The Zalman Shazar 2008 The Gentiles in Rashis religious thought: Polemical trends in 2007 'And he will rule her': A husband's right to beat his wife for 2005 Pious and Rebellious - Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle 2001 The Yeshivot in Babylonia, Germany and France from the ninth to 1999 From the legacy of Sephardi Jewry: The attitude towards the 1998 The Early Sages of France: Their Lives, Leadership and 1995 Relations between Spanish and Ashkenazi Jewry in the Middle 1992 Legislation and Responsa literature. 1992 Galut and geulah in the thought of R. Joseph 1989 From father to son: The inheritance of spiritual leadership in 1989 The relationship between the social structure and spiritual 1988 The historical background of the ordinances of family affairs 1988 Between Spain and France - Relations between the Jewish 1988 The Jewish-Christian polemic and Jewish biblical exegesis in 1986   © All rights reserved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem