Victor Tcherikover

Victor Tcherikover

Victor Tcherikover , also Avigdor Tcherikover , (* 1894 in St. Petersburg , † 1958 ) was a Russian-Israeli classical philologist and ancient historian .

Career

His parents belonged to enlightened Judaism ( Haskala ). He attended the humanistic grammar school in Moscow and studied philosophy and classical philology at the University of Moscow and from 1921 in Berlin.

Tcherikover came to Palestine in 1925 and was one of the first professors of ancient history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the founder of classical philology (with Max Schwabe and Hans Lewy ). In the 1950s he headed the Classics and History Department.

He dealt with Jewish history in Palestine (especially the Hellenistic period up to the Hasmonean Empire) and Egypt in the Hellenistic-Roman period . His 1927 book about the founding of Hellenistic cities was a standard work. Later he was one of the editors of a work on papyri on Judaism with Alexander Fuks . It contains around 600 documents found in Egypt as papyri in Greek (from Hellenistic to Byzantine times), with commentary and translation. In his introduction he deals in detail with the history of Judaism in Egypt in the Hellenistic-Roman period.

Fonts

• The Hellenistic founding of cities by Alexander the Great up to the Roman era, 1927
• Ha-Yehudim va-ha-Yevanim ba-Tekufah ha-Helenistit (Hellenistic civilization and the Jews), 1931, 2nd expanded edition 1963
  • English translation: Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews, 1959
• Palestine under the Ptolemies, 1937
• Ha-Yehudim be-Miẓrayim ba-Tekufah ha-Helenistit-ha-Romit le-Or ha-Papirologyah (The Jews in Egypt in the Hellenistic-Roman Era in the Light of Papyri), 1945, 2nd edition 1963
• with Alexander Fuks: Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, 2 volumes 1957, 1960 (Volume 3 from 1964 with Menahem Stern instead of Tcherikover)

Web links

• Alexander Fuks: Victor Tscherikover , Encyclopedia Judaica