Yuval Noah Harari
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Harari in 2013
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| Native name | יובל נח הררי |
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24 February 1976 Kiryat Ata, Israel |
| Residence | Mesilat Zion, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Alma mater |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jesus College, Oxford |
| Thesis | History and I: War and the Relations between History and Personal Identity in Renaissance Military Memoirs, c. 1450–1600 (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Steven J. Gunn |
| Known for | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind |
| Influences | Jared Diamond |
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Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי; born 24 February 1976) is an Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014).
His latest book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow was published in Hebrew in 2015. An English translation was published in the United Kingdom in September 2016 and in the United States in February 2017.
Harari was born in Kiryat Ata, Israel in 1976 and grew up in a secular Jewish family of eastern European origin in Haifa, Israel.
Harari first specialized in medieval history and military history in his studies from 1993 to 1998 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his DPhil degree at Jesus College, Oxford, in 2002 under the supervision of Steven J. Gunn. From 2003 to 2005 he pursued postdoctoral studies in history as a Yad Hanadiv Fellow.
He has since published numerous books and articles, including Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100–1550;The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450–2000;The Concept of 'Decisive Battles' in World History; and Armchairs, Coffee and Authority: Eye-witnesses and Flesh-witnesses Speak about War, 1100–2000. He now specializes in world history and macro-historical processes.
His book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind was published in Hebrew in 2011 and then in English in 2014; it has since been translated into some 30 additional languages. The book surveys the entire length of human history, from the evolution of Homo sapiens in the Stone Age up to the political and technological revolutions of the 21st century. The Hebrew edition became a bestseller in Israel, and generated much interest both in the academic community and among the general public, turning Harari into a celebrity. YouTube video clips of Harari's Hebrew lectures on the history of the world have been viewed by tens of thousands of Israelis.
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