Dr. Samuel Barnai is an Adjunct Lecturer at the European Forum and at the Rothberg International School (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and at the Department of Jewish History (Ben-Gurion University at the Negev). Dr. Barnai received his Ph.D. from The Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He is also a Research Fellow at Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism and a member of the 2020–2021 Young Scholars’ Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences “Racism, Antisemitism, Genocide: The Holocaust in Its Historical, Ideological and Cultural Contexts”, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

He specializes in large-scale studies of historical, socio-demographic, and cultural developments in East-Central Europe and among East European Jewry.