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David Biale is an American historian specializing in Jewish history.

Biale earned a degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, and remained at the institution to complete a master's degree in modern European history in 1972. During his doctoral studies, Biale specialized in Jewish history, and obtained a Ph.D. in the subject from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977. [1] Between 1986 and 1999, Biale was the Koret Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. [2] [3] [4] He subsequently joined the University of California, Davis, as Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History. [2] [5] Biale received a Guggenhem fellowship in 1999. [6]

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