Avraham Grossman

Avraham Grossman was born in 1936[2] in Tiberias and grew up in Mishmar HaYarden.[2]

In 1948 his family moved to Haifa.[2] He served in the Education and Youth Corps of the Israel Defense Forces.[2]

After his military service, he started his studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jewish history and Talmud for his bachelor's and master's degrees, respectively.[2] His master's thesis was about Gershom ben Judah and was supervised by Ephraim Urbach. His doctoral work, The Rabbinical literature of Ashkenaz and Northern France in the eleventh century,[3] was also supervised by Urbach.[2] Grossman got his doctorate in 1974[2] and moved to London for a postdoc at SOAS, University of London,[2] and manuscript research in the Bodleian Library.

Grossman was appointed lecturer in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976 and full professor in 1986.[2] From 1991 to 1992 he was the head of the Jewish history department.[2] In 2007 he became professor emeritus.

Grossman has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Ohio State University and Yale University in the years 1985, 1986 and 1988 respectively.[2]

Grossman has been married to Rachel since 1961,[2] and has four children. One of them is a professor in the Bible department of Bar-Ilan University.[4]

Grossman is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[5]

Grossman won the Bialik Prize in 1996 for his book The Early Sages of France.[2][6]