Stefan Reif

Stefan Clive Reif (born 21 January 1944) is professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge. He was born in Edinburgh. He has a PhD from University College London and a Doctor of Literature from Cambridge.

Education Stefan Reif graduated at the University of London with first class honours in Hebrew and Aramaic (1964) and obtained his PhD at Jews' College and at University College London (1969) for an edition of a seventeenth-century Hebrew liturgical manuscript. He was awarded the William Lincoln Shelley Studentship (1967).

Academic positions 1968–1973 Various academic posts at the University of Glasgow and at Dropsie College (Philadelphia) Professor of Medieval Hebrew, Faculty of Oriental Studies