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Gedaliah Alon

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Occupation
  
historian

Name
  
Gedaliah Alon

Language
  
Hebrew

Died
  
1950, Israel

Ethnicity
  
Jewish

Citizenship
  
Israeli


Books
  
The Jews in their land in the Talmudic age, 70-640 C.E.

Education
  
Humboldt University of Berlin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Notable awards
  
Israel Prize (1953)

Gedaliah Alon (Hebrew: גדליה אלון‎‎; 1901–1950) was a distinguished Israeli historian.

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Biography

Alon (Rogoznitski) 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

  • Three years after his death, in 1953, Alon was posthumously awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish studies, the inaugural year of the prize.
  • References

    Gedaliah Alon Wikipedia