Moshe Rosman

Moshe Rosman was born in 1949 in Chicago

Moshe Rosman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1949. He is an observant Jew, is married to Lynne Reed, and has six children.

He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University in 1971 and a second bachelor's degree in Talmud from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1972. He continued his graduate studies at the seminary. In 1979 he moved to Israel with his wife and 3 children, and he completed his doctorate in 1982 on Jews in the Sieniawski and Czartoryski estates.

He began teaching at Bar-Ilan University in 1979 and became a full professor there in 2000. His research centers on Jewish life in early modern Poland, including economic and social life, early Hasidism, women and historiography. He was among the first foreign Jewish scholars allowed to work in Polish archives under the communist regime, in 1978 and 1979.

His first book, The Lords' Jews, was based on his doctorate and examined relations between Jews and Polish magnates. He held visiting posts at universities including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Yale. Since 2011 he has been part of a team writing a new general history of Hasidism, and he lives in Jerusalem.