Alex Bein

Alex Bein (Hebrew: אלכסנדר ביין) (born 21 January 1903; died 20 June 1988) was a German-Jewish historian and Zionist historiographer best known for his biography of Theodor Herzl.[1]

Alex Bein

Biography

Alexander (Alex) Bein was born in Steinach an der Saale in Bavaria, southern Germany. He immigrated to Palestine in 1933. He was a resident of Jerusalem.[1]He was director of the Central Zionist Archives and the first State Archivist of Israel.[1] 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.[1][2]

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: Biography of a World Problem", ISBN 0-8386-3252-1
  • 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"
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See also

References
  1. "About the Author" in the translation of Bein's book The Jewish Question
  2. "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1987 (in Hebrew)". Retrieved 2009-07-03.
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