Haim Beinart is emeritus professor of Jewish History of the Middle Ages at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has more than three hundred publications to his credit, almost all of them dealing with the history of the Jews in Spain in the Middle Ages and their subsequent expulsion.
He was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1981 and has received many other prizes and honors for his scholarly work. In 1989 he became a Doctor Honoris Causa of the Complutense University of Madrid and in 1992 a Dr. Lit. of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. He has held visiting professorships in Bern, London, Lucerne, and Princeton, and a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford.
