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Born 2 April 1926 ( 1926-04-02 ) Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria Died 16 June 2010, Herzliya, Israel Books Russia Before The 'Radiant Future': Essays in Modern History, Culture, and Society Awards EMET Prize in Humanities and Judaism | ||
Michael (Michel) Confino (1926–2010) was a historian of 18th and 19th century Russia.
biography
Michael Confino was born in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria. He began his academic studies at the University of Sofia. He immigrated to Israel in 1948. He continued his studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Confino earned his PhD at the Sorbonne.
In 1959 he joined the teaching staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, formed and headed the Russian Studies Department. In The beginning of 1970, Confino joined Tel Aviv University, and in 1971 he founded the Institute of Russian and Eastern Europe studies, and headed it until 1977. Between 1980 – 1985 Confino served as a Visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, Duke, Chicago and other institutions in Europe.
Confino specialized in researching the history of Russia and the problems of Europe's agricultural comparative framework of the social structure, under different regimes between past and present.
Confino was a member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 1993 Confino was awarded the Israel Prize in History, and in 2003 the The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture.