Professor Stefan C Reif

Professor Reif grew up in Edinburgh and studied Hebrew and Aramaic at the University of London (Jews’ College and University College). In 1968 he was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew & Semitic Languages at the University of Glasgow, and spent 1972-73 at Dropsie College, Philadelphia, as Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature. He came to Cambridge in 1973 as Director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at the Cambridge University Library, and was made Professor of Medieval Hebrew at what was then the Faculty of Oriental Studies (now the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) in 1998, holding both of these posts until 2006. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University and the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Hebrew University and Visiting (Professorial) Fellow at its Institute for Advanced Studies, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Visiting Scholar at George Washington University.