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Elazar Hurvitz (born September 23, 1935) is an academic scholar in the field of Talmudic studies.
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Elazar Hurvitz (born September 23, 1935) is an academic scholar in the field of Talmudic studies.
He teaches at Yeshiva College and the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, both schools of Yeshiva University. Hurvitz is Professor of Biblical and Talmudic Literature, and holds the Dr. Samuel Belkin Chair in Judaic Studies. He is also an ordained rabbi.[ citation needed ] In addition, Prof. Hurvitz is the creator and curator of the Eli Michael Microfilm Center for Genizah Studies on the fourth floor of Yeshiva University's library. [1]
Hurvitz's sub-areas of specialty are: halakhic and midrashic literature, Geonic literature, and Genizah research. He earned a doctorate from Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School in 1965. His dissertation was: Nature and sources of Yalkut Talmud Torah by Rabbi Jacob Sikili.
Hurvitz is the editor of many collections of scholarly articles in the field of Jewish studies. Some of Hurvitz's important publications include:
Hurvitz co-edited, with Jay Braverman, the volume: The Prophet Amos and his times : a selection of sources and studies (Yeshiva College: New York. 1965)
In 1969–1970, Hurvitz won the National Foundation for Jewish Culture's study grant. [2]
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