Alexander Fuks (30 May 1917 – 29 November 1978) was a German-born, later Israeli historian, archaeologist and

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

. He worked with

Victor Tcherikover Victor A. Tcherikover ( he, אביגדור צ'ריקובר‎; 1894–1958) was a Russian-born Israeli scholar. Biography Born in Russia, he settled in Palestine in 1925. He was one of the first teachers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...

and

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 Ste ...

on the standard edition of Jewish papyri. He was a specialist in the study of

Hellenistic Judaism Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Greek culture. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism wer ...

.Social conflict in ancient Greece Alexander Fuks - ed. 1984 bio "Alexander Fuks, a disciple of these three scholars, shared their interest in the meeting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman worlds ... Alexander Fuks then conceived the project of a comprehensive book on the subject, which would examine the ..."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuks, Alexander Papyrologists 1917 births 1978 deaths German emigrants to Israel 20th-century Israeli historians Israeli archaeologists Writers from Wrocław 20th-century German historians 20th-century archaeologists