Hanoch Yelon

Hanoch Yelon was an Israeli linguist and leading Talmudic researcher.

Biography

Yelon was born in 1886 in a small village in Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary.
Following the end of World War I, he moved to Vienna and in 1921, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine, living in Jerusalem.
Yelon, an expert in Mishnaic Hebrew and grammar, vocalized the text in Hanoch Albeck's edition of the Mishnah.

Awards

In 1962, Yelon was awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish studies.