Victor A. Tcherikover ( he, אביגדור צ'ריקובר‎; 1894–1958) was a Russian-born

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i scholar.

Biography

Born in

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, he settled in

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in 1925. He was one of the first teachers at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

, and headed the departments of general history and classical studies. He specialized in

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

history in Palestine and

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during the

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period.Tcherikover, Victor ''Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews'', New York: Atheneum, 1975

Publications

*''Ha-Yehudim veha-Yevanim ba-tekufah ha-Helenistit'', 1930 *''Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews'', 1959 *''Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum'' Vol.1, 2 with

Alexander Fuks Alexander Fuks (30 May 1917 – 29 November 1978) was a German-born, later Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist. He worked with Victor Tcherikover and Menahem Stern on the standard edition of Jewish papyri. He was a specialist in the ...

1957-1960 - Tcherikover was succeeded for the 3rd volume (1963) by

Menahem Stern Menahem Stern ( he, מנחם שטרן; March 5, 1925 – June 22, 1989) was an internationally acclaimed Israeli historian of the Second Temple period. He was murdered in Jerusalem by Palestinians during the First Intifada. Biography Menahem ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tcherikover, Victor 1894 births 1958 deaths 20th-century Russian historians Historians of Jews and Judaism Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty 20th-century Israeli historians Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine