Avigdor Shinan

Avigdor Shinan is a contemporary Jewish scholar living in Israel. He is a professor emeritus in the departments of Hebrew Literature, Yiddish, and Comparative Jewish Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Shinan has also served as head of the departments of General Studies and of Hebrew Literature, and as dean of the university. His work focuses on Jewish literature produced during the first six centuries of the first millennium CE.