Gedaliah Alon

Gedaliah Alon was an Israeli historian.

Biography

Gedaliah Rogoznitski was born in 1901 in Kobryn, Belarus.
In 1924, he studied for a year at Humboldt [University of Berlin|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 ; translated and edited by Gershon Levi, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 1980-1984; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.