Alex Bein (born 1903, Steinach a.d. Saale in Bavaria

Bavaria

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 southern Germany

Germany

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; died 1988, Stockholm

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) was a Jewish scholar in Jewish culture and history, one of the founders of Zionist historiography

Historiography

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. He is best known for his biography of Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl , born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl was an Ashkenazi Jew Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.-Early life:...

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Since 1933 he was resident of Jerusalem.

Alex Bein was director of the Central Zionist Archives

Central Zionist Archives

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 and the first State Archivist of Israel

Israel

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In recognition of his research, Bein was awarded the Israel Prize

Israel Prize

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 in 1987 for Zionist historiography.

Published works

• Alex Bein (1980) Die Judenfrage : Biogr. e. Weltproblems (2 volumes) Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
  • Alex Bein, Harry Zohn (translatior) (1990) "The Jewish Question
    Jewish Question
    The Jewish question encompasses the issues and resolutions surrounding the historically unequal civil, legal and national statuses between minority Ashkenazi Jews and non-Jews, particularly in Europe. The first issues discussed and debated by societies, politicians and writers in western and...
    
    : 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 Hertsel 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 (translatior), (1941) "Theodore Herzl: A Biography of the Founder of the Modern Zionism"

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients