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

Hanoch Yelon
חנוך ילון
Born1886
Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
DiedJanuary 18, 1970
(aged 83 or 84)
Israel
Occupationhistorian
LanguageHebrew
CitizenshipIsraeli
Notable awardsIsrael Prize (1962)

Biography

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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.

Yelon, an expert in Mishnaic Hebrew and grammar, vocalized the text in Hanoch Albeck's edition of the Mishnah.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ Yalon (originally Distenfeld), Hanoch," in Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd. ed., eds. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (Macmillan Reference USA, 2007), 21:276-277.
  2. ^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1962 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2010.