Robert Bonfil

{{Short description|Israeli historian}}

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Robert (Roberto, Reuven) Bonfil ({{Langx|he|רוברט בונפיל}}) an important scholar of pre-modern Jewish history and modern Jewish historiography.{{Cite journal |last=Molho |first=Anthony |date=1995 |editor-last=Bonfil |editor-first=Robert |editor2-last=Oldcorn |editor2-first=Anthony |title=Robert Bonfil: A "Modern" Historian's Moral Imperative |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20101236 |journal=Jewish History |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=113–118 |doi=10.1007/BF01668992 |jstor=20101236 |s2cid=143603699 |issn=0334-701X}}{{Cite web |title=Bonfil, Robert {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bonfil-robert |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}} He is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[https://iias.huji.ac.il/people/robert-bonfil] His work focuses on the history of the Jews in Italy and the history of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire.{{Cite journal |last=Gunzberg |first=Lynn M. |date=1996 |title=Review of Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/479374 |journal=Italica |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=273–275 |doi=10.2307/479374 |jstor=479374 |issn=0021-3020}} He was born in 1937 in Greece and is a Holocaust survivor.[https://www.yadvashem.org/remembrance/archive/torchlighters/bonfil.html]{{Cite web |date=2023-04-18 |title=As Threats from Tehran Intensify, Iran's Exiled Crown Prince Stands with Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day |url=https://www2.cbn.com/news/israel/threats-tehran-intensify-irans-exiled-crown-prince-stands-israel-holocaust-remembrance |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=CBN |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=אלבז-אלוש |first=קורין |date=2023-04-18 |title=ראובן ונכדו הקצין השיאו יחד משואה: "היה חשוב לי שיכירו את הסיפור של סבא" |language=he |work=Ynet |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/ryo1uxof3 |access-date=2023-11-05}}