Gedaliah Alon
| Gedaliah Alon | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Native name | גדליה אלון |
| Born |
Gedaliah Rogozitski 1901 Kobryn, Russian-ruled Poland |
| Died |
March 17, 1950 (aged 48–49) Israel |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Notable awards | Israel Prize (1953) |
Gedaliah Alon (Hebrew: גדליה אלון; 1901–1950) was a distinguished Israeli historian.
Biography
Alon (Rogoznitski) was born in 1901 in Kobryn, Belarus (then in Russian-ruled Poland). In 1924, he studied for a year at Berlin University and, in 1926, he emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and continued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He later joined the faculty of the Hebrew University.
Awards
- Three years after his death, in 1953, Alon was posthumously awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish studies,[1] the inaugural year of the prize.
References
- ↑ "Israel Prize recipients in 1953 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010.
See also
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