Henry Abramson earned his PhD in History from the University of Toronto. He holds a diploma in Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies from Kyiv State University and has held visiting and post-doctoral fellowships at Cornell, Harvard, Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  

His early research was on the Jews of Ukraine, including a dissertation published by Harvard University in 1999  (A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920). He has since several books and many scholarly articles on Jews in art and iconography, the history of the Talmud, and the Holocaust. 

His current project is a three-volume survey of Jewish history under contract with Koren Publishers in Jerusalem. An early adopter of web-based media for Jewish history, he was recently awarded the YouTube Silver Creator Award for earning more than 100,000 subscribers. 

His teaching and research have been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, and he is the recipient of the Excellence in the Academy award from the National Education Association.