Motti Inbari

Motti Inbari is a scholar, writer, and educator whose work has reshaped our understanding of Jewish history. Dr. Inbari is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and the author or editor of eight books.

Dr. Inbari earned his Ph.D. at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry (which is currently part of the Department of Modern Jewish History) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Inbari served as the Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and as a post-doctoral fellow at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis.

Reuven Firestone said about Jewish Radical ultra-Orthodoxy: "There is nothing in this book that is not extremely interesting." Eric Tuten described Messianic Religious Zionism as "stimulating and much-needed analysis." Israel Bartal praised Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount as one of the best books of 2008 in a review for the Haaretz Review of Books.

Dr. Inbari won the Hadassah – Brandeis Institute Research Award, AICE Israel Studies Best Publication Award; The Ben Shemesh Best Dissertation Award for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel; Excellence award from the Francis Gunter Foundation for Research on Jerusalem and its Environs, and the Adolph L. Dial Award for Scholarship.