Moshe Zvi Segal

Moshe Zvi 'Segal' was an Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar.

Biography

Segal was born in Maishad, present-day Lithuania in 1875. In 1896, he moved with his family to Scotland and subsequently to London. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1902 and later obtained a degree from Oxford University. He was the Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1910 to 1918, when he went to the
British Mandate of Palestine as a member of the Zionist Commission with Chaim Weizmann.

Academic career

In 1926 he was appointed lecturer at the Hebrew University, where he was promoted to a chair in Bible and Semitic languages in 1939.

Awards and recognition

In 1936 and again in 1950, Segal was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought.
In 1954, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Jewish studies.