Haim Beinart

Haim Beinart (; 1917–2010) was an Israeli historian and academic administrator. Originally from Russia, he was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as the dean of humanities at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He specialized in the history of Iberian Jews, especially in the History of the Jews in Spain.

Biography Haim Beinart was born on November 14, 1917, in Pskow, Russia. In 1923, when he was six years old, his family settled in Riga.

With his wife Ruth, Beinart had four children: Yael, Yosef, Shelomo, and Hagit. He was the inaugural recipient of the "Three Cultures Prize" from the Córdoba, Andalusia for his scholarship in 1986. He received an honorary doctorate from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1988. He was the recipient of the Israel Prize in 1991.

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