Department
Department of Hebrew Culture
Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Moshe Assis is a Talmud Professor at Tel-Aviv University
Areas of Specialization
Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Babli, Minor Tractates, The Gaonic Literature,
Galilean and Babylonian Aramaic
Areas of Interest
Tosefta, The Halachic Midrashim, The Aggadic Midrashim, The Jewish Calendar
Curriculum Vitae
1942 Born (Aleppo, Syria)
1962 Immigration
1963-1969 Military Service
Areas of Specialization
Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Babli, Minor Tractates, The Gaonic Literature, Galilean and Babylonian Aramaic
Areas of Interest
Tosefta, The Halachic Midrashim, The Aggadic Midrashim, The Jewish Calendar
Academic Education
1966 BA (Bible and Talmud), The Hebrew University
1971 MA (Talmud), The Hebrew University
1977 Ph. D. (Talmud), The Hebrew University
Thesis and Dissertation
MA 1971 "A critical Edition of Mishna Tractate Arakhin"
Supervisor: The Late Professor Ephraim Elimelekh Urbach
Ph. D. 1977 "Parallel Sugyot in the Jerusalem Talmud (In the Tractates: Bikkurim, Shabbath, Sotah, Makkoth and Niddah)"
Supervisor: The Late Professor Ephraim Elimelekh Urbach
Positions
1970-1975 Assistant and Instructor, Ben-Gurion University
1971-1976 Assistant and Instructor, The Hebrew University
1976-1979 Visiting and Assistant professor, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, U.S.A.
1979-2010 Visiting, Assistant and Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University
1991-1992 Associate and Full Professor, The Seminary of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem
1999-2000 Deputy Chairman, Talmud Department, Tel-Aviv University
2001-2002 Deputy Chairman, Talmud Department, Tel-Aviv University
2002-2004 Chairman, Talmud Department, Tel-Aviv University
Papers Given at Conferences
1977 7th World Congress of Jewish Studies - On the Textual History of the Tractate Shekalim.
1981 8th World Congress of Jewish Studies - The Glosses of the Gaon of Vilna on Tractate Shekalim.
1985 3rd Annual Conference for the Study of the Talmud – Bar-Ilan University - "Is that not Obvious According to the Opinion of Rabbi...".
1985 9th World Congress of Jewish Studies - On the Question of the Redaction of Yerushalmi Neziqin.
1989 Day of Study in the Talmud – Tel-Aviv University - A Commentary to a Difficult Passage in Yerushalmi Shekalim.
1989 10th World Congress of Jewish Studies – Again on the Question of the Redaction of Yerushalmi Neziqin.
1992 The Yerushalmi and the Literature of Palestine – On the Polemics of "Pnei Zaqen" against the Gaon of Vilna on the Interpretation of Yerushalmi Shekalim.
1993 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies - Commentaries on Vague Passages in Midrash Genesis Rabba.
1995 On the Research of the Yerushalmi – Bar-Ilan University - On the Critical Glosses of "Pnei Zaqen" on the Glosses of the Gaon of Vilna on Tractate Shekalim.
1997 The Talmud Babli and the Literature of the Babylonian Rabbis – Tel-Aviv University – The Glosses of R. Yaakob Ashkenazi – Between the Mishna of the Babli and the Yerushalmi.
1997 12th World Congress of Jewish Studies - The Glosses of R. Yaakob Ashkenazi on the Mishna Order Neziqin.
1998 Synagogue and Prayer in the Tradition – Tel-Aviv University - On the Sidra.
2000 Studies in Tannaitic Literature - Tel-Aviv University – Commentary of One Mishna in Tractate Baba Batra.
2001 13th World Congress of Jewish Studies – The Kurdish Aramaic and the Talmudic Aramaic.
2005 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies - Interpretation of a Vague Statement in the Yerushalmi.
2009 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies - Commentaries on Vague Passages in the Yerushalmi.