Hanoch Yelon

Hanoch Yelon
חנוך ילון
Born 1886
Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died January 18, 1970
(aged 83 or 84)
Israel
Occupation historian
Language Hebrew
Citizenship Israeli
Notable awards Israel Prize (1962)

Hanoch Yelon (Hebrew: חנוך ילון) (born 1886; died 18 January 1970) was an Israeli linguist and leading Talmudic researcher.

Biography

Yelon was born in 1886 in a small village in Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary (later part of Poland and now in Ukraine).

Following the end of World War I, he moved to Vienna and in 1921, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine, living in Jerusalem.

Awards

See also

References

  1. "Israel Prize recipients in 1962 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010.


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