Yaacov Deutsch received his Ph.d
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2005). He is the Executive Director of
the World Union of Jewish studies and the head of the History Department at
David Yellin College. His research focuses on Christian-Jewish relations in the
medieval and early modern periods, and especially on Christian Hebraism. His
book Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic
Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Period was published in 2012 by Oxford University
Press.