David Shulman
Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. David Shulman is an Indologist whose research spans across the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music. Prof. Shulman is also a published poet in Hebrew, a literary critic, a cultural anthropologist who has authored/co-authored more than 20 books. Some of his work include More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India (Harvard University Press, 2012); Tamil: A Biography (Harvard University Press, 2016); and Introspection and Insight: South Indian Minds in the Early Modern Age (Primus Publications, 2022).
David Shulman graduated from The Hebrew University in 1971 with a B.A. in Islamic History followed by a Doctorate in Tamil and Sanskrit, with a dissertation on 'The Mythology of the Tamil Saiva Talapuranam', at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1976.
Prof. Shulman’s list of awards include MacArthur Fellowship (1987), Rothschild Prize (2004), The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2010), and The Israel Prize (2016) for his research on the literature and culture of southern India.