Victor Tcherikover
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Biography
Born in Russia, he settled in PalestinePalestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
in 1925. He was one of the first teachers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...
, and headed the departments of general history and classical studies. He specialized in Jewish history in Palestine and Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
during the Graeco-Roman period.
Publications
- Ha-Yehudim veha-Yevanim ba-tekufah ha-Helenistit, 1930
- Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews, 1959
- Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum Vol.1, 2 with Alexander FuksAlexander FuksAlexander Fuks 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 study of Hellenistic Judaism.-References:...
1957-1960 - Tcherikover was succeded for the 3rd volume (1963) by Menahem SternMenahem SternMenahem Stern was an internationally acclaimed Israeli historian of the Second Temple period.-Biography:Menahem Stern was born in 1925 in Białystok, Poland. His father was a Lithuanian misnaged while his mother came from a Hasidic family. In his childhood he studied Hebrew and religious texts, but...
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