Professor Zvi Yavetz
            Professor Zvi Yavetz has a long and distinguished scholarly career. He is recognized internationally as a brilliant lecturer and writer; and his participation in the Jewish Studies Program at Queens College is always greatly anticipated.
            Professor Yavetz received his Degrees in History, Classics and Sociology from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. M.A. - 1950, Pa.D. - 1956); his Postdoctoral Studies were conducted at the University of London and Lund, Sweden. (1960).
            In 1956 he started lecturing in the History Department, Tel Aviv University where he became Senior Lecturer (1959), Chairman, (1966), and Chairman of the Graduate School of History (1970).
            He has been Visiting Professor in such institues as Cornell, Princeton, Oxford, Munich University, Florence University and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Sinces 1989 he is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of the City University of New Yoek, Queens College.
            In 1991 he received Israel Prize in History and in 1997 Doctorate (Honoris Causa) from Beer-Sheba and Munich Universities.

Among his many publication are -
      Plebs and Princeps, New Brunswick, (1988)
      Augustus, Tel Aviv (1988)
      Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome, Rutgers University Press  (1988)
      Caesar et son image, Paris (1990)
      Caesar; The Limits of a Charisma, Tel Aviv (1992)
      Tiberius and Caligula, Tel Aviv (1995)
      Judenfeindschaft in der Antike, Munich (1997)
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