Hava Lazarus–Yafeh (Hebrew: חוה לצרוס-יפה; 1930–1998) was a German-born Israeli Orientalist, scholar, editor, and educator.

[2] Lazarus–Yafeh was a professor and a head of the Department for Islamic Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[3] Hava Lazarus was born on May 6, 1930, in Wiesbaden, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Weimar Republic (present-day Germany) to a Jewish family.

[5] In November 1938, the Wiesbaden Synagogue, where her father had recently retired from, was destroyed on Kristallnacht.

[4] She was a post-doctoral fellow and visiting researcher at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1965 to 1966.