Background
Menahem Stern was born in 1925 in Białystok, Poland. His father was a Lithuanian misnaged while his mother came from a Hasidic family.
Menahem Stern was born in 1925 in Białystok, Poland. His father was a Lithuanian misnaged while his mother came from a Hasidic family.
In his childhood he studied Hebrew and religious texts, but later acquired a general education that included Latin. They settled in Haifa, where he studied at the Hebrew Reali School. When the family moved to Tel Aviv, he switched to Geulah high school, from which he graduated in 1942.
In 1943, after working on a kibbutz for a year, he enrolled in the History of the Jewish people, General History and Classical Studies departments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1950, he received his Master of Arts After a year he began teaching at the university.
In 1960 he received his Doctor of Philosophy and was appointed Lecturer of the History of the Jewish people in Second Temple period. On June 22, 1989, he was murdered by Arab terrorists while walking to the Jewish National and University Library in Givat Ram through the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem, as he did every day.
The annual Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures were established in his name.
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.