Occupation historian Name Hanoch Yelon Language Hebrew Died January 18, 1970, Israel | Ethnicity Jewish Citizenship Israeli | |
Notable awards Israel Prize (1962) | ||
Hanoch Yelon (Hebrew: חנוך ילון) (born 1886; died 18 January 1970) was an Israeli linguist and leading Talmudic researcher.
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Biography
Yelon was born in 1886 in a small village in Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary (later part of Poland and now in Ukraine).
Following the end of World War I, he moved to Vienna and in 1921, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine, living in Jerusalem.
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