KLEIN, HYMAN

KLEIN, HYMAN (1908–1958), English talmudic scholar. Klein was born in London, where he attended the Etz Chaim yeshivah and Cambridge University, where he received honors in mathematics. He was principal of Aria College, South-sea, 1938–44, and headed the Liverpool Talmudical College, 1944–50. Thereafter he was in London for a short period and spent his last years in Jerusalem. Klein wrote many papers on the literary composition of the Babylonian Talmud, which were published from 1933 onwards (in: JQR, 23 (1932/33), 211–31; 28 (1937/38), 189–216). They constitute an important contribution to the analysis of the talmudic sugya (cf. JQR, 38 (1947/48), 67–91; 43 (1952/53), 341–63; 50 (1959/60), 124–46; Journal of Semitic Studies, 3 (1958), 363–72; Tarbiz, 31 (1961/62), 23–42). Among his other works are annotated editions of the Mishnah Rosh Ha-Shanah (1938), Berakhot (1948), and Megillah (1952); a Talmud correspondence course; Introduction to the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud (1943); and translations into English of Maimonides, The Code of Maimonides, Book Eleven: Book of Torts (1954) and of Kasher's Encyclopaedia of Biblical Interpretation (vol. 4, 1958). He edited and co-translated with A. Black Maimonides' Laws of Inheritance (1950) and revised Gandz's translation of The Code of Maimonides, Book Three: The Book of Seasons (1961). He was also co-translator of tractate Nazir (Soncino, 1936).