Alex Bein

Alex Bein ( born January 21, 1903 in Steinach an der Saale, † June 20, 1988 in Stockholm; actually Alexander leg ) was a German -Israeli historian and archivist.

Life

Alexander leg was born into a Jewish family Frankish country. His father was a teacher. After studying in Erlangen and Berlin, he received his doctorate in 1926 in Berlin under Friedrich Meinecke with a dissertation on Alexander Hamilton. 1927 to 1933 he was employed at the German National Archives in Potsdam. In 1933 he went to Palestine for Zionist Archives, helped with the development and expansion of the Israeli archive system.

Since 1955, Alex 's leg was as successor to Georg Herlitz longtime director of the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem ( leg successor there was Michael Heymann, followed in May 1990 by Yoram Mayorek ). 1956 to 1971 he was also State Archivist of Israel.

He has published as author, editor or co-editor of a series of important papers and documents, for example, was editor of the Herzl's writings in ten volumes, since 1980, together with Hermann Greive, Moshe Schaerf and Julius H. Schoeps co-editor of " Letters and Journals " of Theodor Herzl.

Published 1996 by Julius H. Schoeps ( leg was his fatherly friend; Schoeps led in the 1990s and the purchase of the leg 's library and sent them to Potsdam on lead ), published in German language memoirs ( previously published in Hebrew ) under the title "Here you can not greet each ... ".

Leg son Johanan was Israeli ambassador in Bonn and then in senior positions at Yad Vashem operates.

Other works

  • Biography of Herzl, 1934 ( translated into several languages ​​, basic)
  • (Ed.): The Mozkin Book, Jerusalem 1939
  • Biography Arthur Ruppin, 2 volumes, 1944 (3 volumes, 1968)
  • The Return to the Soil, 1952 (in multiple languages)
  • The Jewish Parasite, 1964 ff (in several languages)
  • Modern anti-Semitism and its importance to the Jewish question, in Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History Vol 4, 1958, H. 6 Full text ( PDF file, 1.06 MB) pp. 340-360
  • " The Jewish parasite" Remarks on the semantics of the Jewish question, ibid Vol 13, 1965, H. 2 Full text ( PDF file, 1.38 MB) pp. 121-149
  • The Jewish question. Biography of a World Problem ( 2 volumes, 1980)
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