death_place death_date birth_place subject nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
jerusalem april 30 , 1990 będzin , poland crusader states israeli november 10 , 1917 joshua prawer
 joshua prawer medievalist , educator
joshua prawer

joshua prawer -lrb- ; november 22 , 1917 -- april 30 , 1990 -rrb- was a notable israeli historian and a scholar of the crusades and kingdom of jerusalem .
his work often attempted to portray crusader society as a forerunner to later european colonialist expansion .
he was also an important figure in israeli higher education , was one of the founders of the university of haifa and ben-gurion university , and was a major reformer of the israeli education system .
