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Alex Bein (born January 21, 1903 in Steinach an der Saale ; died June 20, 1988 in Stockholm ; actually Alexander Bein ) was a German - Israeli historian and archivist .
Life
Alexander Bein was born into a Frankish rural Jewish family. His father was a teacher. After studying in Erlangen and Berlin, he received his doctorate in Berlin in 1926 under Friedrich Meinecke with a dissertation on Alexander Hamilton . From 1927 to 1933 he was employed at the German Reich Archives in Potsdam. In 1933 he went to the Zionist Archives in Palestine and helped set up and expand the Israeli archives.
Since 1955, Alex Bein was Georg Herlitz's successor and director of the Zionist Central Archives in Jerusalem for many years (Bein’s successor there was Michael Heymann, followed in May 1990 by Yoram Mayorek). From 1956 to 1971 he was also the State Archivist of Israel.
As an author, editor or co-editor he published a number of important works and documents. B. Editor of Herzl's writings in ten volumes, since 1980 together with Hermann Greive , Moshe Schaerf and Julius H. Schoeps co-editor of Theodor Herzl's “Letters and Diaries” .
In 1996 Julius H. Schoeps (Bein was his fatherly friend; Schoeps also bought the Bein library in the 1990s and had it transferred to Potsdam) published in German (previously in Hebrew) under the title Hier kann don't you greet everyone ...
Bein's son Jochanan was the Israeli envoy in Bonn and then worked in a leading position for Yad Vashem .
Other works
- Herzl's biography, 1934 (translated into several languages, basic)
- People and Land: The Construction Work of Keren Hajessod. Zionism and its work. Prague, September 1938 (Tischri 5699)
- (Ed.): The Mozkin Book , Jerusalem 1939
- Biography Arthur Ruppins , 2 volumes, 1944 (3 volumes, 1968)
- The Return to the Soil , 1952 (in several languages)
- The Jewish Parasite , 1964 ff. (In several languages)
- Modern anti-Semitism and its significance for the Jewish question . (PDF; 1 MB) In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 4, 1958, no. 6, pp. 340–360
- “The Jewish Parasite”: Remarks on the Semantics of the Jewish Question . (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 13, 1965, no. 2, pp. 121–149
- The Jewish question . Biography of a world problem . Two volumes. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-421-01963-0 .
literature
- Bein, Alex , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 47
- Bein, Alex , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 24
- Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Foreword by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer . Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt 1962
- Bein, Alex , in: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 453-457.
- Julius H. Schoeps : Encounters. People who crossed my path in life . Berlin 2016, pp. 337–356, ISBN 978-3-633-54278-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Aleksander Bain in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alex Bein Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Julius H. Schoeps: Bein, Alexander . In: Julius H. Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-579-02305-5 , p. 106 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leg, Alex |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bein, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Jewish historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steinach on the Saale |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1988 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |