Alex Bein (
Hebrew
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: אלכסנדר ביין) (born 21 January 1903; died 20 June 1988) was a
German-Jewish
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historian and
Zionist
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historiographer best known for his biography of
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl; hu, Herzl Tivadar; Hebrew name given at his brit milah: Binyamin Ze'ev (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish lawyer, journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern po ...
.
Biography
Bein was born in Steinach an der Saale in Bavaria
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, southern Germany
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. He immigrated
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to Palestine in 1933. He was a resident of Jerusalem
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.[He was director of the ]Central Zionist Archives
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and the first State Archivist of Israel
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.["About the Author"]
in the translation of Bein's book ''The Jewish Question'' 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.
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
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: Biography of a World Problem",
*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 Herzl: A Biography of the Founder of the Modern Zionism"
See also
* List of Israel Prize recipients
References
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
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Jewish scholars
1903 births
1988 deaths
Israeli archivists
People from Jerusalem
Israel Prize in Zionist historiography recipients
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine