Alex Bein


Alex Bein 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 Die Judenfrage : Biogr. e. Weltproblems Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
  • *Alex Bein, Harry Zohn "The Jewish Question: Biography of a World Problem",
  • Alex Bein "The Return to the Soil: a History of Jewish Settlement in Israel"
  • Alex Bein "Israel's Charter of Freedom"
  • Aleks Bain Toldot ha-hityashvut ha-Tsiyonit mi-teḳufat Hertsl ṿe-ʻad yamenu
  • Alex Bein "Der Zionismus und sein Werk"
  • Alex Bein "Theodor Herzl; Biographie. mit 63 Bildern und einer Ahnentafel."
  • *Alex Bein, Maurice Samuel, "Theodore Herzl: A Biography of the Founder of the Modern Zionism"