Dr. Menashe Anzi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. His research focuses on the history of Yemenite Jewry and Jewish–Muslim relations.
His book, The Ṣanʿāʾnis: Jews in Muslim Yemen, 1872–1950, received the Ben-Zvi Institute Prize in 2022. He leads a National Science Foundation-funded research project on the Ḥibshūsh Family-Firm and their commercial networks.