Simon Dubnow (M / Russia, 1860-1941), scholar

Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) was a Jewish-Russian scholar. One of the greatest Jewish scholars of the early XX century, founder of the sociological method in Jewish history. Born in Belarus, moved to St. Petersburg (1880), Odessa (1890), and St. Petersburg again (1906), where he taught Jewish history at Petrograd University. In 1922 emigrated to Berlin (1922), and then, after Hitler came to power, to Riga, Latvia (1933), where he was murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Works

Books

• Vseobshchaia istoriia evreev (1901-1904 Dubnow), book
  • An Outline of Jewish History (1925 Dubnow), book (English ed.)
• Weltgeschichte des jüdischen Volkes <German> (10 vols.; Berlin 1925-26)

External links

• JewEn.com
• Wikipedia