Ishay rosen-zvi

Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies, teaches rabbinic literature in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University and is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work focuses on hermeneutics, halakha, and collective identity in Second Temple Judaism and rabbinic literature. In 2025, he received the Rothschild Prize for Excellence in the Humanities. He has taught at many universities, including Harvard, Princeton, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Among his recent publications are: Goy: Israel’s Others and the Birth of the Gentile (with Adi Ophir) (Oxford, 2018); The Talmud: A History of Learning (with Yakov Z. Meir) (Jerusalem, 2025); and How to Read Mishna and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic Literature (UC Press, Berkeley, 2026).