Alex Bein
Israeli academic

Alex Bein

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Israeli academic
A.K.A.
Alexander Bein, Alex Bein, Aleksander Bayn
Gender:
Male
Places:
GermanyIsrael
Is:
AcademicHistorianArchivist
Work field:
EducationSocial science
Birth:
21 January 1903(Steinach, Bad Bocklet, Bad Kissingen district, Germany)
Death:
30 June 1988(Stockholm, Over-Governors office, Sweden)
Star sign:
Aquarius
Education:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Germany
Awards:
Israel Prize
Family:
Children:
Johanan Bein
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Introduction

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"