Haim Beinart

Haim Beinart
Born	1917 Pskow, Russia
Died	February 16, 2010 Jerusalem, Israel
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation	Historian

Haim Beinart (1917-2010) was an Israeli historian and academic administrator. He was a Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as the Dean of Humanities at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He specialized in the history of Iberian Jews.

Early life

Haim Beinart was born in 1917 in Pskow, Russia. He earned a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1955.

Career

Beinart became a lecturer at his alma mater, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in 1958. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1963, associate professor in 1966 and full professor in 1971. Meanwhile, he was appointed as the Dean of Humanities at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1969. He was also a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Study from September 1986 to June 1987. He retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1988 as the Bernard Cherrick Professor Emeritus of History of the Jewish People.

Beinart was an expert on Iberian Jews. He visited many towns in Spain to investigate their Jewish pasts.

Beinart became a corresponding member of the Spanish Academy of Humanities in 1973 and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1981. He received an honorary doctorate from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1988. He was the recipient of the Israel Prize in 1991.

Death

Beinart died on February 16, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Works

• Beinart, Haim, ed. (1974–1985). Records of the trials of the Spanish Inquisition in Ciudad Real. Jerusalem: Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities. ISBN 9789652080240. OCLC 1297217.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
• Beinart, Haim (1980). Trujillo, a Jewish community in Extremadura on the Eve of the Expulsion from Spain. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. ISBN 9789652233493. OCLC 7248199.
• Beinart, Haim (1981). Conversos on Trial: The Inquisition in Ciudad Real. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. ISBN 9789652233844. OCLC 8766020.
• Beinart, Haim (1992). Atlas of Medieval Jewish History. Jerusalem: Carta. ISBN 9781441656179. OCLC 709715798.
• Beinart, Haim, ed. (1992). The Sephardi Legacy. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. ISBN 9789652237996. OCLC 28150442.
• Beinart, Haim (2002). The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Portland, Oregon: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. ISBN 9781874774419. OCLC 470225028.