Gabriel Baer, 1919-1982
Baer, who escaped Germany in 1933, was a scholar of the social history of the modern Middle East, particularly Egypt, as well as the late Ottoman Empire. As a Hebrew University professor in African and…
Salo Wittmayer Baron, 1895-1989
Born in Poland, Baron emerged as one of the greatest Jewish historians of the 20th century. He opposed the “lachrymose conception of Jewish history,” which focused on Jewish suffering. Baron’s “Social and Religious History of…
Noah Barou, 1889-1955
Born in Ukraine, Barou was a trade unionist and political activist who was active in Poalei Zion. After that group broke with the new Soviet authorities, he moved to London, where he helped found the…
Selig Brodetsky, 1888-1954
Ukrainian-born Brodetsky engaged the Zionist movement as an undergraduate at Cambridge. He attended the Twelfth to Twenty-Third Zionist Congresses and served with the World Zionist Executive from 1928 to 1951. He was the president of…
