Prof. Miriam Frenkel is a Professor Emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a prominent scholar of medieval Jewish history in the lands of Islam.
She currently serves as the Head of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East and as President of the Society for the Study of Judeo-Arabic Culture.
Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of Jews in the Mediterranean world, often utilizing the Cairo Geniza documents to reconstruct the daily lives, economic networks, and intellectual contributions of Jewish communities in medieval Islamic societies.