Gedaliah Alon
Appearance
Gedaliah Alon | |
---|---|
Native name | גדליה אלון |
Born | Gedaliah Rogozitski 1901 Kobryn, Russian-ruled Poland |
Died | 17 March 1950 Israel | (aged 48–49)
Occupation | Historian |
Language | Hebrew |
Citizenship | Israeli |
Notable awards | Israel Prize (1953) |
Gedaliah Alon (Hebrew: גדליה אלון; 1901–1950) was an Israeli historian.
Biography
[edit]Gedaliah Rogoznitski (later Alon) was born in 1901 in Kobryn, Belarus (then in Russian-ruled Poland). In 1924, he studied for a year at Berlin University and, in 1926, he emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and continued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He later joined the faculty of the Hebrew University.
Awards and recognition
[edit]In 1953, three years after his death, Alon was posthumously awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish studies,[1] the inaugural year of the prize.
Published works
[edit]- Jews, Judaism, and the Classical World: Studies in Jewish History in the Times of the Second Temple and Talmud; translated from the Hebrew by Israel Abrahams, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 1977.
- The Jews in their Land in the Talmudic Age (70-640 C.E.); translated and edited by Gershon Levi, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 1980-1984; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1953 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 19 August 2011.
Categories:
- 20th-century Belarusian Jews
- Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 20th-century Israeli historians
- 20th-century Israeli Jews
- Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
- Israel Prize in Jewish studies recipients
- Israel Prize in Jewish studies recipients who were historians
- Jewish historians
- Jewish scholars
- Historians of Jews and Judaism
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- People from Kobryn
- Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- 1901 births
- 1950 deaths
- Immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah
- Israeli academic biography stubs
- Asian historian stubs