Isaiah Shachar

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Isaiah Shachar (born Yeshayahu Stengel in Haifa on August 6, 1935; died on September 19, 1977) was a Jewish Historian.

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he studied European history and Jewish history in eastern Europe. His Master thesis in 1963 was entitled Criticism of the Jewish Community and Its Leadership in the Hasidic and Non-Hasidic Literature of Eighteenth Century Poland—A Comparative Study (in Hebrew). 1964-66 Shachar was Junior Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute (University of London) where he worked on a doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professor E. H. Gombrich (finished 1967). It was published in his main work: The Judensau: A Medieval Anti-Jewish Motif and Its History, Warburg Institute Surveys, 5 (London, 1974).

Shachar wrote some articles on Jewish art.

A memorial volume commemorating the life and works of Shachar was edited by Clare Moore in 1993: The Visual Dimension: Aspects of Jewish Art (Westview Press, 1993).