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Anna Brechta Sapir Abulafia, FRHistS (born 8 May 1952) is a British academic who specialises in religious history. Since 2015, she is the Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
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Academic career
Abulafia specialises in the history of relations between Jews and Christians in the European Middle Ages. She once commented that when she asked her father whether she would stoke antisemitism by publishing an article on the subject, he replied that "Antisemites ... were not created by work like mine; they existed already without it and had no interest in historical analyses".
On 1 April 2015, she was appointed the Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at University of Oxford and became a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Personal life
In 1979, the then Anna Brechta Sapir married the historian David Abulafia. They have two daughters.