Alex Bein
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Alex Bein | |
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| אלכסנדר ביין | |
| File:Alex Bein.jpg Alex Bein | |
| Born | 21 January 1903 |
| Died | 20 June 1988 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, archivist |
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| Awards | Israel Prize (1987) |
Alex Bein (Hebrew: אלכסנדר ביין) (21 January 1903 – 20 June 1988) was a German-Jewish historian and Zionist historiographer best known for his biography of Theodor Herzl.[1]
Biography
Bein was born in Steinach an der Saale in Bavaria, southern Germany. He immigrated to Palestine in 1933. He was a resident of Jerusalem.[1]He was director of the Central Zionist Archives and the first State Archivist of Israel.[1] Bein died while on a visit to Stockholm.
Awards and recognition
Bein was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987 for his contribution to Zionist historiography.[1][2]
Published works
- Alex Bein (1980) Die Judenfrage : Biogr. e. Weltproblems (2 volumes) Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
- Alex Bein, Harry Zohn (translator) (1990) "The Jewish Question: Biography of a World Problem", ISBN 0-8386-3252-1
- Alex Bein (1952) "The Return to the Soil: a History of Jewish Settlement in Israel" (Translated from the Hebrew by Israel Schen)
- Alex Bein (1949) "Israel's Charter of Freedom"
- Aleks Bain (1945) Toldot ha-hityashvut ha-Tsiyonit mi-teḳufat Hertsl ṿe-ʻad yamenu
- Alex Bein (1939) "Der Zionismus und sein Werk"
- Alex Bein (1934) "Theodor Herzl; Biographie. mit 63 Bildern und einer Ahnentafel."
- Alex Bein, Maurice Samuel (translator), (1941) "Theodore [sic] Herzl: A Biography of the Founder of the Modern Zionism"
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "About the Author" in the translation of Bein's book The Jewish Question
- ↑ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1987 (in Hebrew)". Retrieved 2009-07-03.
External links
- The personal papers of Alex Bein are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is P64
- Works by Alex Bein at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Alex Bein at the Internet Archive