Benjamin Z. Kedar

Benjamin Z. Kedar
Born (1938-09-02) 2 September 1938 (age 85)
NationalityIsraeli
Occupation(s)Historian, academic, scholar
Academic background
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem, Yale University
Academic work
InstitutionsHebrew University & Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
Main interestsComparative history, crusades, medieval language texts

Benjamin Ze'ev Kedar (born 2 September 1938)[1] 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).[2][3][4] He is 2019 The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture laureate in history [5] , the 2020 Israel Prize laureate in history research. [6] and in 2024 he won the Prix Gustave Schlumberger de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. [7]

  1. ^ Who's Who in Israel 2001 (Tel Aviv, 2002), p. 214: "KEDAR, Benjamin Z.
  2. ^ "Benjamin Z. Kedar CV" (PDF).
  3. ^ Prof. Nili Cohen elected tenth President of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 10 June 2015. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities site.
  4. ^ Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at BGU, Prof. Joseph Kost elected as member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 11 June 2015. Ben-Gurion University site.
  5. ^ Benjamin Z. Kedar, in The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture site
  6. ^ Kadari-Ovadia, Shira (25 February 2020). The Israel Prize in the field of general history research will be awarded to Prof. Benjamin Zeev Kedar. (Hebrew), Haaretz.
  7. ^ Prof. Benjamin Z. Kedar awarded a prize from the l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

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