Yosef Kaplan is Bernard Cherrick Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; visiting professor at Yale University; fellow at the Royal Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar (The Netherlands); Associated Director of Research at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Goldsmid Visiting Professor at University College London; Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford; Associated Director of Research at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris; Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford; member of the School of Historical Studies, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He was chairman of the Historical Society of Israel and member of the editorial board of the historical quarterly Zion. He was one of the founders of the School of History at the Hebrew University and its second Director. In 2004 he was elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and from October 2013 until September 2018 was chair of its Humanities Division. Between 2009-2013 he was the Chairman of the World Union of Jewish Studies.
His books were published in Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. Among his works: From Christianity to Judaism. The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro, Oxford 1989; An Alternative Path to Modernity. The Sephardi Diaspora in Western Europe, Leiden 2000.
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- yosef.kaplan@mail.huji.ac.il