Menahem Stern (1925-1989), scholar
Menahem Stern (1925-1989) was a Polish-born Israeli scholar.
Biography
Born in Poland, moved to Palestine in 1938. A graduate of the Hebrew University in 1960. Historian, specialist on the Second Temple period, taught in his home Faculty ever since. Victim in 1989 of an apparent terroristic assassination.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- The Great Families of the Period of the Second Temple (1959)
- The Documentation of the Maccabean Rebellion (1965)
- Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism (3 vols.; Jerusalem 1974-81)
- Studies in the History of the People of Israel in the Period of the Second Temple (1991, published posthumously)
- The Reign of Herod (1992, published posthumously)
- Hasmonean Judea in the Hellenistic World: Chapters in Political History (1995, published posthumously