Lieberman Schaul ( 1898 , Motol - March 22, 1983 , USA ) - commentator and researcher of Talmudic literature. Laureate of the State Prize of Israel .
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| Place of Birth | Motol , Grodno province , Russian Empire , now Ivanovo district , Brest region |
| Date of death | March 22, 1983 |
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| Awards and prizes | Israel Prize ( 1971 ) Bialik Literary Prize ( 1957 ) Harvey Award ( 1976 ) |
Biography
Born in the town of Motol in the family of Rabbi Moishe Lieberman and Liba Katsenelenbogen-Epshteyn - the daughter of Rabbi Kobrin, Shool Katsenelenbogen. He studied at the Sloboda Yeshiva , at Kiev University and Nancy University.
In 1927 he emigrated to Eretz Yisrael . Having settled in Jerusalem, he continued his studies at Hebrew University (since 1928; received his first degree in 1931), where he then taught the Talmud . In the period from 1935 to 1940 he headed the H. Fishel Institute of Talmudic Studies in Jerusalem .
In 1940, he received a position at the Shechter Rabbinical Seminary in New York , where Lieberman was appointed professor, from 1949 - dean, in 1958 - rector. Over the years, he was president of the American Academy of Jewish Studies, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences , a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Hebrew Language Academy . In 1971 he was awarded the State Prize of Israel in the field of Judaism, in the same year he was awarded the Harvey Prize . Laureate of the Bialik Prize (1957).
The main works are the scientific edition of the text of Tosefta and the composition “Tosefta ki-fshuta” (“Tosefta in a popular exposition”) - a multi-volume commented edition of Tosefta.
Lieberman died on March 22, 1983 during a flight from New York to Israel [3] .
Family
His first wife, Liberman Rachel, was the granddaughter of I.I. L. Perelman , his second wife, Yehudit (died 1977), is the daughter of M. Bar-Ilan . Lieberman's cousin is Abraham Yeshayau Karelitz .
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Meir Bar-Ilan. Saul Lieberman: The Greatest Sage in Israel (Link not available) . Bar-Ilan University. Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
Links
- Liberman Schaul - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia