Gedaliah Alon

Gedaliah Alon
Mounted portrait of Alon
Native name	גדליה אלון
Born	Gedaliah Rogozitski 1901 Kobryn, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	17 March 1950(1950-03-17) (aged 48–49) Jerusalem, Israel
Occupation	Historian
Language	Hebrew
Citizenship	Israeli
Education	Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Notable awards	Israel Prize (1953)

Gedaliah Alon (Hebrew: גדליה אלון; 1901–1950) was an Israeli historian.

Biography

Gedaliah Rogoznitski (later Alon) 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 and recognition

In 1953, three years after his death, Alon was posthumously awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish studies, 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