Professor Yehuda Nini is Head of the Haim Rosenberg School of
Jewish Studies at Tel
Aviv University and professor of Jewish History with special focus
on Islamic and Oriental studies. Born 1930 in Palestine (now Israel)
to parents who had immigrated from Yemen, he is married to Nurit
and they have two children, Asaf and Shlomit.
A Selected List of Publications
M.A. thesis, "The War Between the Scissors and the Pan: Don
Santo De Carrion or Rabbi Shemtov Ardutiel," Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, 1962.
Ph.D. dissertation, "The Jewish Community in Yemen in the
Nineteenth Century," Tel Aviv University, 1977.
Books:
"Rabbi Shem Tov Ben Itzhak Ardutiel, or Donato Santo De-Carrion."
(Hebrew) Tel Aviv, Institute of Zionist Studies, 1980. 86 pp.
"Yemen and Zion, The Jews of Yemen, 1800-1914: A Political
and Social Study of Their Emigration to Palestine." (Hebrew)
Jerusalem, Institute of Zionist Studies, 1982. 345 pp.
"The Jews of Egypt, Everyday Life According to the Rabbinical
Response 1882-1914." (Hebrew) Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University
Press, 1983. 104 pp.
"The Jews of Yemen 1800-1914." (English) Oxford, Harwood
Academic Publishers, 1990. 275 pp.
"The Record of Jewish Rabbinical Courts of Sana, Yemen, 1725-
1861," Vol. I, 1200 pp.; Vol. II, 800 pp.
"The Kineret Yemenite Affair, the Re-Settlement of a Community
in 1930," Am Oved, 1996.
In press: "The Ideology of Assassination as a Political Instrument
in Jewish Modern Thought."
Prof. Nini participated in the First International Congress for
the Study of the Sephardi and Oriental Jewry, Jerusalem, 1978;
Maghreb-Mashreq, International Coloquium, Institute de Recherches
Me diterraneennes, Aix-en Provence, France, 1983; and Seminar
for Arabian Studies, London, 1986.
He has held the following teaching and administrative positions:
teacher in "seminar Hakibbutzim" (1966-73); instructor
in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University (1973-1996);
academic coordinator for the Zionist Research Institute (1977-1
978); academic coordinator of "Miphal Moreshet for Oriental
Jewry Research" at Tel Aviv University (1977-84); consultant
to "Bet-Hatefutzoth" Museum of the Diaspora in Tel Aviv
(1978); member of the President's Study Circle in the President's
Residence, J erusalem (1978-85); academic coordinator of the Department
of Jewish History (1982-1984); member of the editorial board of
Yad Ben-Zvi Institute (1978-86); senior associate member at St.
Antony's College in Oxford, England (1984; 1987-88); visiting
schola r at L.S.E. (1994); and head of the School of Jewish Studies
at Tel Aviv University (1994-present).
He initiated an agreement of academic exchange between the School
of Asian and African Studies at University of London, and the
School of Jewish Studies. An annual International Symposium has
been established and the first one was held in London on March
18-20, 1996, on the subject: "Jews and Muslims--a Revised
Evaluation."
Professor Nini was awarded the following academic and professional
honors: the Tel Aviv University Arrane Prose Prize (1978); a visiting
Fellow position at Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies
(1978-79); a President Yi tzchak Ben Zvi award (1983).
Prof. Nini is currently working on a comprehensive research on
the "Messawade," the record book of the Rabbinical Court
of Sana'a, Yemen, from the 18th to the 20th Century. His latest
academic investigation is on "The Ideology of Assassi nation
as a Political Instrument in Modern Jewish Thought."
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