Daniel R. Schwartz

Daniel R. Schwartz (born 1952; Hebrew: דניאל שוורץ‎) is a professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] His book Agrippa I won the 1988 Arnold Wischnitzer Prize. His Second Book of Maccabees, an annotated translation into Hebrew of 2 Maccabees, was published in 2004, followed by a translation into English in 2008.[2] Schwartz has served on the Committee for the Itzhak Ben-Zvi Award of the Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi Institute.[3] In 2011 he was appointed academic head of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies.[4]

Background

Daniel Schwartz was born in the United States in 1952 and made aliyah to Israel in 1971. He earned a Ph.D in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980 and chaired the university's Department of Jewish History between the years 1992 and 1994. He became full professor in 1995.[5]

Agrippa I

Aryeh Kasher of Tel Aviv University, whose review of Agrippa I includes numerous disagreements with Schwartz, describes the biography as "an impressive work full of original and stimulating ideas."[6]

Menahem Stern legacy

After the murder of Menahem Stern in 1989, Schwartz was called upon to edit various drafts and fragments that Stern had been in the process of writing and that were intended to be part of a multivolume survey of Jewish history in the Second Temple period. The result was published in 1995 as Hasmonean Judea in the Hellenistic World: Chapters in Political History (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center).[7]

In the preface to his Second Book of Maccabees (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press), Schwartz re

Awards and honors
  • Arnold Wischnitzer Prize, 1988
  • Féher Prize, 1992

See also

References
  1. "Rabbinic Law Between Biblical Logic and Biblical Text". Ottawa: Carleton University. 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2011. Daniel R. Schwartz was born in the US in 1952 and moved to Israel in 1971.
  2. Bloch, René (2009). Ben Zvi, Ehud (ed.). "Daniel R. Schwartz, 2 Maccabees (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature [CEJL"] Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008)". Journal of Hebrew Scriptures. 9. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  3. "פרס יצחק בן-צבי לשנת תשנ"ד לד"ר ישראל בן-שלום" [Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Prize for 2004 for Dr. Israel Ben-Shalom]. Cathedra (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Yitzhak Ben Zvi Institute (72). June 1994.
  4. "Prof. Daniel Schwartz has been appointed as Scholion's Academic Head". Scholion – Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies. 3 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  5. "Schwartz, Daniel R." Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  6. Aryeh Kasher (October 1993 – January 1994). "Schwartz, Agrippa I: The Last King of Judea". The Jewish Quarterly Review. University of Pennsylvania Press. 84 (2–3): 329–333. ISSN 0021-6682. JSTOR 1455373.
  7. Goodblatt, David (1997). "Review: Menahem Stern. Hasmonean Judea in the Hellenistic World: Chapters in Political History". AJS Review. Cambridge University Press. 22 (1): 112–114. JSTOR 1486873.
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