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'''Ben Zion Wacholder''' (1924-2011) was a Polish-born Jewish American scholar. | '''Ben Zion Wacholder''' (1924-2011) was a Polish-born Jewish American scholar. Ben Zion Wacholder was born in Ozarow, Poland in 1924. He survived the Holocaust under a false identity, working in a Polish labor camp and hiding in forests until liberation. After the War he moved to France, and Columbia and finally in 1947 settled in the United States. He earned his PhD from UCLA in 1960. In 1963 he joined the Faculty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he became the Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics. Wacholder died in Roslyn Heights, New York on March 29, 2011. | ||
Ben Zion Wacholder was born in Ozarow, Poland in 1924. | |||
He survived the Holocaust under a false identity, working in a Polish labor camp and hiding in forests until liberation. After the War he moved to France, and Columbia and finally in 1947 settled in the United States. | |||
He earned his PhD from UCLA in 1960. | |||
In 1963 he joined the Faculty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he became the Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics. | |||
Wacholder died in Roslyn Heights, New York on March 29, 2011. | |||
==Works | ==Works == | ||
====Books==== | ====Books==== | ||
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*[[The Dawn of Qumran: The Sectarian Torah and the Teacher of Righteousness (1983 Wacholder), book]] | *[[The Dawn of Qumran: The Sectarian Torah and the Teacher of Righteousness (1983 Wacholder), book]] | ||
== | *[[The New Damascus Document (2006 Wacholder), book]] | ||
==Biography== | |||
*[ Wikipedia] | *[ Wikipedia] | ||
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[[Category:American Scholars|1924 Wacholder]] | [[Category:American Scholars|1924 Wacholder]] | ||
[[Category:Jewish-American|1924 Wacholder]] | |||
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[[Category:Born in the 1920s| 1924 Wacholder]] | [[Category:Born in the 1920s| 1924 Wacholder]] | ||
[[Category:Died in the 2010s| | [[Category:Died in the 2010s| 2011 Wacholder]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Qumran Studies|~1924 Wacholder]] | ||
Latest revision as of 10:55, 21 January 2017
Ben Zion Wacholder (1924-2011) was a Polish-born Jewish American scholar. Ben Zion Wacholder was born in Ozarow, Poland in 1924. He survived the Holocaust under a false identity, working in a Polish labor camp and hiding in forests until liberation. After the War he moved to France, and Columbia and finally in 1947 settled in the United States. He earned his PhD from UCLA in 1960. In 1963 he joined the Faculty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he became the Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics. Wacholder died in Roslyn Heights, New York on March 29, 2011.
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