Baruch Lifshitz

Belarusian professor

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

OccupationUniversity teacher

Employer

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Baruch Lifshitz (Hebrew: ברוך ליפשיץ; 1913, Davyd-Haradok – 1976, Tel Aviv) was a Belarusian professor of the Department of Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He participated in excavations in Israel, and his research has been published in different referenced works.^[1]^[2]

Life

Lifshitz was born in 1913 at Davyd-Haradok in Byelorussia, where he received his early education.^[3] He studied at the Vilnius University, but had to abandon his studies and flee because of the outbreak of World War II.^[3] Lifshitz fled to Tashkent, where he was conscripted into the Red Army.^[3]

In 1946, he arrived in Palestine, and began studying history and classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[3] He earned his M.A in 1952, and his Ph.D. in 1957 at Jerusalem.^[4] His dissertation was entitled The Protection of Graves in Grave Inscriptions in Eretz-Israel, and while preparing his doctoral thesis, he studied Greek epigraphy in Paris with professor Louis Robert.^[3]

Lifshitz was senior lecturer in classics and later a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] He began working at the Hebrew University in 1952 as a senior scholar.^[9] In 1957 he became an instructor, and in 1962 a lecturer.^[9]

During some twenty years of his life he published contributions to Jewish and Latin epigraphy, study of the Greek and Latin inscriptions of Palestines.^[3] He was the first to compile inscriptions of the synagogue's founders and donors in his work Donateurs et fondateurs dans les synagogues juives répertoire des dédicaces grecques relatives à la construction et à la réfection des synagogues.^[10] He has also worked as an editor and translator of ancient manuscripts.^[11] His papers have been published in more than 70 scholarly journals.^[3] Yigael Yadin has published some of his research in Israel Exploration Journal by the Israel Exploration Society.^[1]^[12]

Lifshitz died on September 18, 1976, in Tel Aviv, Israel.^[3]

Some works

Thesis

Lifshitz, Baruch (1957). The Protection of Graves in Grave Inscriptions in Eretz-Israel (PhD diss. Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Books

Lifshitz, Baruch (1967). Donateurs et fondateurs dans les synagogues juives: répertoire des dédicaces grecques relatives à la construction et à la réfection des synagogues. Cahiers de la Revue biblique, Revue biblique, ISSN 0575-0741. Vol. 7. J. Gabalda. OCLC 600240401.

Articles

Lifshitz, Baruch (1962). "The Greek Documents from the Cave of Horror". Israel Exploration Journal. 12 (3/4): 201–207. JSTOR 27924908.
Lifshitz, Baruch (1962). "Papyrus grecs du désert de Juda". Aegyptus (in French). 42 (3/4): 240–256. JSTOR 41215857.
Lifshitz, Baruch (1962). "L'origine du nom des chretiens". Vigiliae Christianae. 16 (2): 65–70. doi:10.2307/1582133. JSTOR 1582133.
Lifshitz, Baruch; Schiby, J. (1968). "Une Synagogue Samaritaine a Thessalonique". Revue Biblique (1946-). 75 (3): 368–378. JSTOR 44087982.
Lifshitz, Baruch (1976). "Bleigewichte aus Palästina und Syrien". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 92 (2): 168–187. JSTOR 27931038.
Lifshitz, Baruch (1978). "Scythopolis. L'histoire, les institutions et les cultes de la ville à l'époque hellénistique et impériale". In Temporini, Hildegard; Haase, Wolfgang (eds.). Politische Geschichte (Provinzen und Randvölker: Syrien, Palästina, Arabien). Vol. 8. doi:10.1515/9783110866940-010. ISBN 9783110866940. OCLC 848357261. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
Lifshitz, Baruch (1978). Temporini, Hildegard; Haase, Wolfgang (eds.). Jérusalem sous la domination romaine. Histoire de la ville depuis la conquête de Pompée jusqu'à Constantin (63 a. C.—325 p. C.). Politische Geschichte (Provinzen und Randvölker: Syrien, Palästina, Arabien). Vol. 8. doi:10.1515/9783110866940-014. ISBN 9783110866940. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

References

^ ^a ^b Greenfield, Jonas C. (April 1976). "Reviewed Works: Beth Sheʿarim. Vol. 2, Ha-kĕtōbōt ha-yĕwaniyyōt [The Greek Inscriptions] by Moshe Schwabe, Baruch Lifshitz; Beth Sheʿarim. Vol. 3, Ha-ḥăfīrōt hāʾarkhiólogiyyōt bĕšānīm 1953-1958 [The Archaeological Excavations during 1953-1958] by Nahman Avigad". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 35 (2): 137–139. doi:10.1086/372476. JSTOR 545201.
^ Menahem Mor (2016). The Second Jewish Revolt: The Bar Kokhba War, 132-136 CE. The Brill Reference Library of Judaism. BRILL. p. 4. doi:10.1163/9789004314634. ISBN 978-90-04-31463-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Gilead, Itzhak; Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Valla, François; Wreschner, E.E.; Lamdan, M.; Amiran, Ruth; Cohen, Carmela; Dothan, Moshe; Biran, Avraham; O'Connell, Kevin G.; Rose, D. Glenn; Toombs, Lawrence E.; Cohen, Rudolph; Kloner, Amos; Meyers, Eric M.; Dauphin, Claudine (1977). "Notes and News". Israel Exploration Journal. 27 (4). Israel Exploration Society: 261–262. JSTOR 27925639.
^ Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim (1966). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. p. 448.
^ "Department of Classical Studies. The Faculty of Humanities". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
^ Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim (1972). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. p. 69.
^ Demetrios J. Constantelos (1982). Understanding the Greek Orthodox Church: Its Faith, History, and Practice. Vol. 1. Seabury Press. p. 20. ISBN 9780816405152.
^ Jerusalem to Jabneh, Units 5-6. Open University of Israel. p. 43. ISBN 9789650611910.
^ ^a ^b Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim (1962). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem Post Press. p. 346.
^ Tibor Grüll (2019). Ókori zsinagógák dedikációs feliratai [Dedicatory inscriptions of ancient synagogues, in Hung.]. pp. 67–90.
^ "Lifshitz, B". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
^ Randall Buth; R. Steven Notley, eds. (2014). The Language Environment of First Century Judaea: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels—Volume Two. Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series. BRILL. p. 42. ISBN 9789004264410.