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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.
 
==Biography==
 
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 on Second Temple Judaism==
==Works ==


====Books====
====Books====
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*[[The New Damascus Document (2006 Wacholder), book]]
*[[The New Damascus Document (2006 Wacholder), book]]


==External links==
==Biography==
*[ Wikipedia]
*[ Wikipedia]




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Revision as of 15:56, 30 April 2015

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.

Works

Books

Biography

  • [ Wikipedia]