Alex Bein

Alex Bein (Hebrew: אלכסנדר ביין) (born Alexander Bein on 21 January 1903, Steinach an der Saale in Bavaria, southern Germany; died 20 June 1988, Stockholm) was a Jewish scholar in Jewish culture and history, one of the founders of Zionist historiography. He is best known for his biography of Theodor Herzl.^[1]

Since 1933 he was resident of Jerusalem.^[1]

Alex Bein was director of the Central Zionist Archives and the first State Archivist of Israel.^[1]

In recognition of his research, Bein was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987 for Zionist historiography.^[1]^[2]

Published works

Alex Bein (1980) Die Judenfrage : Biogr. e. Weltproblems (2 volumes) Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
- Alex Bein, Harry Zohn (translatior) (1990) "The Jewish Question: Biography of a World Problem", ISBN 0-8386-3252-1
Alex Bein (1952) "The Return to the Soil: a History of Jewish Settlement in Israel" (Translated from the Hebrew by Israel Schen)
Alex Bein (1949) "Israel's Charter of Freedom"
Aleks Bain (1945) Toldot ha-hityashvut ha-Tsiyonit mi-teḳufat Hertsel ṿe-ʻad yamenu
Alex Bein (1939) "Der Zionismus und sein Werk"
Alex Bein (1934) "Theodor Herzl; Biographie. mit 63 Bildern und einer Ahnentafel."
- Alex Bein, Maurice Samuel (translatior), (1941) "Theodore Herzl: A Biography of the Founder of the Modern Zionism"

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The personal papers of Alex Bein are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is P64
Works by Alex Bein at Project Gutenberg
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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "About the Author" in the translation of Bein's book The Jewish Question
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