Joshua Prawer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joshua Prawer

Israeli medievalist and educator

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1917

Place of Birth: Będzin, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 30-Apr-1990

Profession: historian, medievalist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Joshua Prawer (Hebrew: ????? ?????????; November 22, 1917 – April 30, 1990) was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem. His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European colonialist expansion.
He was also an important figure in Israeli higher education, was one of the founders of the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University, and was a major reformer of the Israeli education system.