Yitzhak Baer
Yitzhak Baer ( Hebrew יצחק בער ; * December 20, 1888 in Halberstadt as Fritz Baer ; † January 22, 1980 in Jerusalem ) was a Jewish historian and author .
Life
Fritz Baer was born in 1888 into a wealthy Jewish family. After finishing school in Halberstadt, he studied philosophy, history and classical philology at the universities of Berlin , Strasbourg and Halle between 1908 and 1914 . In 1913 he received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg (under Heinrich Finke ) with a thesis on the history of the Jews in Aragon . From 1919 he worked at the Institute for the Science of Judaism in Berlin. On their behalf he stayed in Spain in 1925/26, where he collected archival material on the history of Spanish Jewry. From 1928 Baer taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 1930 he was appointed full professor of Jewish and general history of the Middle Ages. His collection of sources on Spanish Judaism was the basis for his two-volume history of the Jews in Christian Spain , which is considered a standard work.
Baer won the Bialik Prize in 1945 and the Israel Prize in 1958 .
Works (selection)
- Studies of the History of the Jews in the Kingdom of Aragon: During the 13th and 14th Centuries. Berlin: E. Ebering, 1913
- The protocol book of the rural Jews of the Duchy of Kleve: first part: the history of the rural Jews of the Duchy of Kleve. Berlin: CA Schwetschke, 1922
- Investigations into the sources and composition of the Schebet Jehuda. Berlin: CA Schwetschke, 1923
- Galut. Berlin: Schocken, 1936
- The Jews in Christian Spain. First part: certificates and registers . 2 volumes, Berlin 1929 and 1936 (reprinted in London 1970).
- History of the Jews in Christian Spain . 2 volumes (Heb. 1945–1959, eng. 1961–1966), Philadelphia 1992. ISBN 0-8276-0431-9
literature
- Benzion Dinur (Dinaburg): BAER, YITZHAK. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 3, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865931-2 , pp. 53-54 (English).
- Baer, Yitzhak. 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. 298-302.
- Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 59
Web links
- Literature by and about Yitzhak Baer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ tel-aviv.gov ( Memento of December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Hebrew)
- ↑ [1] education.gov (Hebrew)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baer, Yitzhak |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baer, Fritz; Baer, Jizchak Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-German historian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halberstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1980 |
| Place of death | Israel |