Ariel Bension

Ariel Bension (unknown photographer)

Ariel Bension , also as transliteration: Ben-Zion (born May 7, 1880 in Jerusalem , Ottoman Empire ; died November 9, 1932 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a Jewish writer.

Life

Ariel Bension was the "son of a major chacham of a Moroccan Kabbalistic sect " and a descendant of Abraham ben Samuel ibn Chasdai from Barcelona in the 13th century . As a young man, Bension stayed with relatives in Algeria for some time and then went to Germany and Switzerland to study philosophy. He received his doctorate from the University of Bern . In 1913, Bension was rabbi for one year in Bitola , which had belonged to Serbia since 1912 . Back in Palestine, he married Rahel Mizrahi and later, a second marriage , to Ida Siegler from Montreal . His estate therefore went to the Canadian relatives and from them to the University of Alberta . Bension was committed to Zionism and toured Jewish communities in the Middle East and Asia, North Africa, South America and Europe, where he campaigned for support for the Jewish settlement of Palestine. He took part in the 11th Zionist World Congress in Vienna and the 15th World Congress in Basel .

Due to his historical work on the Zohar , he was appointed (corresponding) member of the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid.

Fonts (selection)

The Zohar (1932)

The wedding of death . Translation by Eugen Hoeflich and others. Sascha Kronburg drew the 6 pictures and the cover . Leipzig: Valley, 1920
The Jewish Renaissance in Eretz Israel , in: Canadian Jewish Chronicle, March 6, 1925
Juifs et Arabes , newspaper article, February 27, 1931
The Zohar in Muslim and Christian Spain . Foreword by Sir Denison Ross . London: Routledge, 1932 (1974)

literature

Armin A. Wallas (Ed.): Eugen Hoeflich. Diaries 1915 to 1927 . Vienna: Böhlau, 1999 ISBN 3-205-99137-0 , p. 346
Saul I. Aranov: A descriptive catalog of the Bension collection of Sephardic manuscripts and texts . Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1979 ISBN 978-0-88864-016-1 Excerpts
Jack Sasson Levy: Un diamante en el camino: vida y obra del Dr. Ariel Ben Zion . Sonora [Mexico]: Tronix Diseño, 2006
Yuval Evri, Almog Behar: Between East and West: controversies over the modernization of Hebrew culture in the works of Shaul Abdallah Yosef and Ariel Bension , in: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 2017, Vol 16 (2).

Web links

Literature from and about Bension, Ariel in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Eugen Hoeflich : New Oriental literature , in: Neue Freie Presse , March 13, 1921 page 32, quoted by Armin A. Wallas: Eugen Hoeflich , 1999, p 346
^ Denison Ross, Foreword, 1932, pp. Xiii
↑ Vita Ariel Bension I. in the preface to Saul Aranov: A descriptive catalog of the collection Bension , xiii 1979, p xiv
^ Sascha Kronburg (1893–1985)
^ A very critical review by Simon Hopkins in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 45, Issue 1, February 1982, pp. 143f. doi: 10.1017 / S0041977X00054434

personal data
SURNAME	Bension, Ariel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ben-Zion, Ariel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jewish writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1932
Place of death	Neuilly-sur-Seine

[1] Eugen Hoeflich : New Oriental literature , in: Neue Freie Presse , March 13, 1921 page 32, quoted by Armin A. Wallas: Eugen Hoeflich , 1999, p 346

[2] Denison Ross, Foreword, 1932, pp. Xiii

[3] Vita Ariel Bension I. in the preface to Saul Aranov: A descriptive catalog of the collection Bension , xiii 1979, p xiv

[4] Sascha Kronburg (1893–1985)

[5] A very critical review by Simon Hopkins in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 45, Issue 1, February 1982, pp. 143f. doi: 10.1017 / S0041977X00054434