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Alex Bein

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Alex Bein
אלכסנדר ביין
Alex Bein
Born(1903-01-21)21 January 1903
Steinach an der Saale, Bavaria, Germany
Died20 June 1988(1988-06-20) (aged 85)
Nationality Israel
Occupation(s)Historian, archivist
Notable work
AwardsIsrael 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

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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

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Bein was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987 for his contribution to Zionist historiography.[1][2]

Published works

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "About the Author" in the translation of Bein's book The Jewish Question
  2. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1987 (in Hebrew)". Retrieved 2009-07-03.
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