Alex Bein

Alex Bein
אלכסנדר ביין
Alex Bein
Born	(1903-01-21)21 January 1903 Steinach an der Saale, Bavaria, Germany
Died	20 June 1988(1988-06-20) (aged 85) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupations	Historian, archivist
Notable work	Biography of Theodor Herzl
Awards	Israel Prize (1987)

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

Biography

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[ sic ] Herzl: A Biography of the Founder of the Modern Zionism"

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

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.

External links

• The personal papers of Alex Bein are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is P64
• Works by Alex Bein at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Alex Bein at the Internet Archive