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Gedaliah Alon (; 1901–1950) was an Israeli
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
.


Biography

Gedaliah Rogoznitski (later Alon) was born in 1901 in
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,
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(then in
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-ruled
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). In 1924, he studied for a year at
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and, in 1926, he
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to the British Mandate of Palestine and continued his studies at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...
. He later joined the faculty of the Hebrew University.


Awards and recognition

In 1953, three years after his death, Alon was posthumously awarded the
Israel Prize The Israel Prize (; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor. History Prior to the Israel Prize, the most significant award in the arts was the Dizengoff Prize and in Israel ...
for
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, the inaugural year of the prize.


Published works

* ''Jews, Judaism, and the Classical World: Studies in Jewish History in the Times of the Second Temple and Talmud''; translated from the Hebrew by Israel Abrahams, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 1977. * ''The Jews in their Land in the Talmudic Age (70-640 C.E.)''; translated and edited by Gershon Levi, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 1980-1984; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.


See also

*
List of Israel Prize recipients This is an incomplete list of recipients of the Israel Prize from the inception of the Prize in 1953 - 2025. List For each year, the recipients are, in most instances, listed in the order in which they appear on the official Israel Prize website ...


References

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