Abraham Meir Habermann

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Abraham Meir Habermann , also Heman HaYéroushalmi (born January 7, 1901 in Zurawno , Austria-Hungary ; died 1980 in Jerusalem ), was an Israeli literary scholar and Medievalist .

Life

Abraham Meir Habermann came in Galician Zurawno that today in the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast located urban-type settlement Zhuravne , to the world. He studied in Würzburg and Leipzig , and from 1923 he also worked as a librarian in the book collection of the department store entrepreneur and bibliophile Salman Schocken . From 1930 to 1934 he worked as a teacher and librarian for the Berlin Jewish Community . Habermann had to emigrate to Palestine in 1934 . From 1934 to 1967 he worked again as a librarian in the Schocken Library, which was rescued in Jerusalem.

Habermann taught medieval literature at Tel Aviv University from 1957 and became a professor there in 1969. He was also a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Librarian School .

Habermann researched the Jewish literature of the Middle Ages and published a large number of new texts. He also wrote essays and fiction texts under the stage name Heman HaYéroushalmi. He was married to Bilha Habermann and they have two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The history of the Hebrew book: from marks to letters; from scroll to book . Text hebrew. Jerusalem: Mass, 1968
  • Title pages of Hebrew books . Introduction in English, text in Hebrew. Safed: Museum of Printing Art, 1969
  • A history of Hebrew liturgical and secular poetry . Text hebrew. Rāmat-Gan: Hōṣāʾat Masādāh, 1970

literature

  • Habermann, Abraham Meir , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 40
  • Habermann, Abraham Meir , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 1971, Volume 7, Col. 1024

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personal data
SURNAME Habermann, Abraham Meir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurawno , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1980
Place of death Jerusalem