Daniel R. Schwartz

Daniel R. Schwartz (born 1952; Hebrew: דניאל שוורץ‎) is a professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book Agrippa I won the 1988 Arnold Wischnitzer Prize. His Second Book of Maccabees, an annotated translation into Hebrew of 2 Maccabees, was published in 2004, followed by a translation into English in 2008. Schwartz has served on the Committee for the Itzhak Ben-Zvi Award of the Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi Institute. In 2011 he was appointed academic head of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies.

Daniel Schwartz was born in the United States in 1952 and made aliyah to Israel in 1971. He earned a Ph.D in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980 and chaired the university's Department of Jewish History between the years 1992 and 1994. He became full professor in 1995.

Aryeh Kasher of Tel Aviv University, whose review of Agrippa I includes numerous disagreements with Schwartz, describes the biography as "an impressive work full of original and stimulating ideas."

After the murder of Menahem Stern in 1989, Schwartz was called upon to edit various drafts and fragments that Stern had been in the process of writing and that were intended to be part of a multivolume survey of Jewish history in the Second Temple period. The result was published in 1995 as Hasmonean Judea in the Hellenistic World: Chapters in Political History (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center).

In the preface to his Second Book of Maccabees (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press), Schwartz re

• Arnold Wischnitzer Prize, 1988
• Féher Prize, 1992