Israel Klausner
Israel Klausner (1905-1981) was a historian, Hebrew writer and studied literature, Judaism and Zionism. He was born in Troki (Trakai), a village near Vilna but during World War One the family moved to Vilna. He went to school in Vilna and continued to the University of Vilna where he graduated in 1935.
In 1936 he made aliyah to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. He completed his doctorate at the Hebrew University in 1942 while working at the Central Zionist Archive, rising to the position of deputy manager (from 1956).
From the late 20's Israel Klausner began publishing articles and stories in Vilna; most of his work appeared in Hatzefira. Initially, his writing was bi-lingual but, later he became a research historian, abandoned Yiddish and, after his arrival in Israel, devoted his time to researching the Zionist movement. He made a great contribution to the study of the community in Vilna; he wrote about the history of the community, the history of the old Jewish cemetery, the Hebrew community and the Vilna Gaon.
Israel Klausner published approximately fifty books of research, biographies, history, the Holocaust, Zionism, the Hebrew language etc. He also edited books and studies that had been written by other people. In 1963 three volumes of The History of the 20th Century were published; Klausner and Charles Bloch were the scientific editors. Some of his books are still in demand and they appear regularly on used book sites on the Internet.
In 1975 he was awarded the Yakir Yerushalayim prize.
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