Robert (Roberto, Reuven) Bonfil an important scholar of pre-modern Jewish history and modern Jewish historiography.^[1][2] He is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His work focuses on the history of the Jews in Italy and the history of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire.^[3] He was born in 1937 in Greece and is a Holocaust survivor.^[4][5]

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Robert Bonfil
Born	1937
Occupation	Historian, Judaic scholar

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• Bonfil, Robert (1994). Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy. Translated by Oldcorn, Anthony. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07350-0.
• Bonfil, Robert (2012). Jews in Byzantium: dialectics of minority and majority cultures. Jerusalem studies in religion and culture. Leiden [etc.]: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-20355-6.