Benjamin Gampel

Teaches at 92nd Street Y

Dr. Benjamin Gampel serves as the Dina and Eli Field Family Chair in Jewish History at Jewish Theological Seminary. A specialist in medieval and early modern Jewries, Dr. Gampel recently published Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391–1392, which was granted the 2016 National Jewish Book Council's Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in Scholarship.

Dr. Gampel, who earned his doctorate from Columbia University, spent almost a year researching in local Spanish archives for his first book The Last Jews on Iberian Soil. Thanks to his painstaking work, Dr. Gampel was able to re-create some of the long-forgotten history of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. He also edited the volume Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391–1648.