Minna Rozen
Minna Rozen (born October 1947) is a professor emeritus at the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. Rozen served as head of the Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University, and specializes in the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan states. Biography Minna Rozen was born in Tiberias and grew up in Afula, Israel. She studied law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1966, after her marriage, she returned to Afula and studied history at the University of Haifa. Later she completed her PhD in history at Tel Aviv University. Academic career Between 1973 and 1999 she taught at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the study of Jews during the Ottoman period. Between 1992 and 1997, she was the director of the Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University. Since 1999, she has been teaching at the University of Haifa. She has taught as a guest professor at Princeton University. Rozen's historiographical approach is an interdisciplinary one combining historical research with several disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, such as sociology, literature, art history, gender studies, and diaspora theories. Over the years, Rozen's writing has focused on grassroots history, manifesting in