Alex Bein

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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.

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. He was director of the Central Zionist Archives and the first State Archivist of Israel. 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.

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

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

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