Moshe_Zvi_Segal

Moshe Zvi Segal

Moshe Zvi (Hirsch) Segal (Hebrew: משה צבי סגל) (born 23 September 1875; died 11 January 1968) was an Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar.[1]

Biography

Segal was born in Maishad, Lithuania in 1875.[2] In 1896, he moved with his family to Scotland and subsequently to London. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1902 and later obtained a degree from Oxford University. He was the Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1910 to 1918, when he went to the British Mandate of Palestine as a member of the Zionist Commission with Chaim Weizmann.

Academic career

In 1926 he was appointed lecturer at the Hebrew University, where he was promoted to a chair in Bible and Semitic languages in 1939.[3]

Awards and recognition

See also


References

  1. "Rabbi Moses Hirsch Segal, Biblical Scholar, Dies in Israel, Age 92". January 16, 1968.
  2. Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (2011-01-27). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Springer. p. 888. ISBN 9780230304666.
  3. Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture, ed. Glenda Abramson, London: Routledge, 2004
  4. "Israel Prize recipients in 1954 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012.



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