 from Ohio State University (1971), where he wrote a thesis on 18th-Century Hasidic Rabbi Abraham Kalisker under the supervision of Zvi Ankori (1920–2012), a specialist of Byzantine Karaites and a student of Salo Baron.Following Ankori, Hundert returned to Columbia to pursue a doctorate degree in history.He primarily studied with (born 1935), political and diplomatic historian of early modern Poland-Lithuania, and completed his dissertation in 1978 titled “Security and Dependence