Background
Itamar Singer was born on November 26, 1946, in Dej, Romania. He was the son of Zoltán and Gertrude Singer.
(In a career that so far has spanned nearly four decades, ...)
In a career that so far has spanned nearly four decades, more than thirty of them as Professor of Hittitology in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University, Itamar Singer has had a profound impact on the field of ancient Near Eastern studies, and Hittite studies in particular. His wide-ranging contributions have nowhere been more deeply felt than in the ...
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Itamar Singer was born on November 26, 1946, in Dej, Romania. He was the son of Zoltán and Gertrude Singer.
He studied for his bachelors in archaeology and geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem graduating in 1968 and then went on to pursue his masters at Tel Aviv while fulfilling his national service obligation concurrently in the Israeli airforce.
He is known for his research of the Ancient Near East and as a leading Hittitologist, pioneering the study of this ancient Anatolians culture in Israel and elucidating the tensions which brought about its demise. The family lived in a Hungarian-speaking enclave in Transylvania and then moved to Cluj (Kolozsvár) when Singer was five years old. They relocated to Israel in 1958, where they settled in the new town of Holon.
Singer married Argentinean-born Egyptologist, Doctor Graciela Noemi Gestoso.
His Hittite studies were to continue at the University of Marburg, Germany, under the auspices of Heinrich Otten, resulting in his doctor-ship and yielding an influential thesis on "The Hittite KI.LAM Festival" in 1978. He joined the Department of Archaeology and Near East Cultures at Tel Aviv, at times simultaneously teaching in the Department of Jewish History and other educational establishments.
He reached full professorship in 1996 and remained in this position until retiring due to poor health in 2008. The focus of his academic interest was in what he termed the Pax Hethitica, a period of the 13th century British Columbia - a golden age of international diplomatic relations between the great powers and with their Levantine vassals.
He was the first researcher to theorize that it was the internal rivalries and the schism which rendered the Hittite empire vulnerable to the Bronze Age collapse and the coup de grace delivered by the Sea Peoples and others
His publications numbered over a hundred papers in academic journals, to which he continued to contribute well into retirement.
(In a career that so far has spanned nearly four decades, ...)
Foreign several years he was a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Antiguo Oriente.