Moshe Zvi (Hirsch) Segal (Hebrew: משה צבי סגל) (born 23 September 1875; died 11 January 1968) was an Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar.[1]
Biography
editSegal was born in Maishad, Lithuania in 1875.[2] In 1896, he moved with his family to Scotland and subsequently to London. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1902 and later obtained a degree from Oxford University. He was the Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1910 to 1918, when he went to theBritish Mandate of Palestine as a member of the Zionist Commission with Chaim Weizmann.
Academic career
editIn 1926 he was appointed lecturer at the Hebrew University, where he was promoted to a chair in Bible and Semitic languages in 1939.[3]
Awards and recognition
edit- In 1936 (jointly with Raphael Patai) and again in 1950, Segal was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought.[4]
- In 1954, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Jewish studies.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Rabbi Moses Hirsch Segal, Biblical Scholar, Dies in Israel, Age 92". January 16, 1968.
- ^ Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (2011-01-27). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Springer. p. 888. ISBN 9780230304666.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture, ed. Glenda Abramson, London: Routledge, 2004
- ^ "List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933–2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-12-17.
- ^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1954 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012.
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