HALPERN (Halperin), ISRAEL
- HALPERN (Halperin), ISRAEL
- HALPERN (Halperin), ISRAEL (1910–1971),
Israel historian. Halpern was born in Bialystok, Poland, emigrated to
Ereẓ Israelin 1934, began his teaching career at the Hebrew University
in 1949, and became professor in 1963. His main interest was the history
of East European Jewry, particularly pinkasim ("registers").
His publications include Pinkas Va'ad Arba Araẓot
("Minutes of the Council of the Four Lands,"
1945); Ha-Aliyyot ha-Rishonot shel ha-Ḥasidim le-Ereẓ Israel
("Early Ḥasidic Immigration to Palestine," 1956); and Takkanot
Medinat Mehrin ("Moravian Community Enactments," 1952). He also
edited Sefer ha-Gevurah (3 vols., 1941, 19512), a
historical-literary anthology of Jewish self-defense and martyrdom, and
Beit Yisrael be-Polin (2 vols., 1948–54), a collection of
essays on Polish-Jewish history. Halpern took a leading part in the work
of the Israel Historical Society, and was coeditor of the journals
Zion and Shivat Ẓiyyon, publications devoted to
the history of Zionism. He was the brother of lipman halpern , the
neurologist.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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