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Daniel Sperber
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Daniel Sperber
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Daniel Sperber

Israeli, 1940
Place ActiveToronto, Ontario, Canada
Place ActiveRamat Gan, Israel
Place ActiveJerusalem, Israel
Daniel Sperber is a British-born Israeli Talmudic professor, academic, and rabbi. He has published numerous books on Jewish history and culture and is a professor at Bar-Ilan University. Sperber is also an honorary Chancellor of the Canadian Yeshiva & Rabbinical School in Toronto and the served as the rabbi of Menachem Zion Synagogue in Jerusalem. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish studies in 1992.