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Urbach, Ephraim Elimelech was born on May 25, 1912 in Wloclawek, Poland. Son of Israel Joseph and Haya Esther (Spiegel) Urbach.
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The author presents in this work, which is based on an exhaustive study of the sources by means of philological-historical methods, a vivid picture of the religious and social thoughts of the Tanna im and Amora im, their absorption and rejection of extraneous concepts, their spiritual struggles and the goals they sought to achieve. The intellectual ferment marking this era crystallized principles that fashioned the Jewish national and religious image for generations.
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Urbach, Ephraim Elimelech was born on May 25, 1912 in Wloclawek, Poland. Son of Israel Joseph and Haya Esther (Spiegel) Urbach.
Student, Jewish Theological Seminary, Breslau, Poland. Student, University Breslau, 1930. Doctor of Letters, University Rome, 1936.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Ben-Gurion University Negev, 1984. Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary New York, 1982.
Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Tel Aviv University, 1986.
He is best known for his landmark works on rabbinic thought, The Sages, and for research on the Tosafot. He was an unsuccessful candidate to be President of Israel in 1973. A professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Urbach was a member and president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Urbach was born in Białystok, Poland, to a hasidic family.
He emigrated to Palestine in 1937. He served as a rabbi in the British army during World World War World War II He also took part in Israel"s War of Independence and thereafter worked for several educational institutions before joining the Hebrew University faculty in 1953.
Urbach died on 3 July 1991 at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem after a long illness. The cause of death is undisclosed.
He is buried at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, near Menachem Begin.
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President Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities, Jerusalem, 1980—1986. Member of World Union Jewish Studies (president), Academy Hebrew Language, American Academy Jewish Studies (correspondent).
Married Hanna Pinczower, 1944.