Alex Bein (Hebrew: אלכסנדר ביין) (born 21 January 1903; died 20 June 1988) was a German-Jewish historian and Zionist historiographer best known for his biography of Theodor Herzl.^[1]

Biography

Bein was born in Steinach an der Saale in Bavaria, southern Germany. He immigrated to Palestine in 1933. He was a resident of Jerusalem.^[1]He was director of the Central Zionist Archives and the first State Archivist of Israel.^[1] Bein died while on a visit to Stockholm.

Awards and recognition

Bein was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987 for his contribution to Zionist historiography.^[1][2]

Published works

• Alex Bein (1980) Die Judenfrage : Biogr. e. Weltproblems (2 volumes) Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
  • Alex Bein, Harry Zohn (translator) (1990) "The Jewish Question: Biography of a World Problem", ISBN 0-8386-3252-1
• Alex Bein (1952) "The Return to the Soil: a History of Jewish Settlement in Israel" (Translated from the Hebrew by Israel Schen)
• Alex Bein (1949) "Israel's Charter of Freedom"
• Aleks Bain (1945) Toldot ha-hityashvut ha-Tsiyonit mi-teḳufat Hertsl ṿe-ʻad yamenu
• Alex Bein (1939) "Der Zionismus und sein Werk"
• Alex Bein (1934) "Theodor Herzl; Biographie. mit 63 Bildern und einer Ahnentafel."
  • Alex Bein, Maurice Samuel (translator), (1941) "Theodore [sic] Herzl: A Biography of the Founder of the Modern Zionism"