Geoffrey Wigod
Geoffrey Wigod ( ), born in Leeds on 3 August 1922 and died in Jerusalem on 9 April 1999 , is a historian , academic and encyclopedic Israeli origin British. Specialist culture Jewish , he was the editor of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. He wrote numerous books on nature encyclopedic history, archeology, religion and film.
Biography
After studying at Trinity College (Dublin) , Geoffrey Wigod received his doctorate in Jewish medieval history of Oxford University and then continued his training at Jewish seminary in New York. In 1949 he emigrated to Israel , where he first worked as a newspaper journalist and columnist on the radio. He was one of the leaders of the station The Voice of Zion to the diaspora, and became a correspondent for the Yorkshire Post and BBC in Jerusalem. As such, he "covered" every day developments of the trial of Eichmann. From 1960 to 1967 he directed the programs of Israel to foreign destinations.
Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Wigod collaborated with Cecil Roth in New Standard Edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia and the development of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. Roth's death in 1970, he took his followers and became the editor of this new encyclopedia, leading a team of 2,000 people.
His other publications include the Oxford Dictionary of Judaism, a concordance of the Bible and an Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Religion, Jewish Art and Civilization.
He gathered the necessary files to create an encyclopedia of Jewish communities disappeared in the Holocaust. The book was published in collaboration with Shmuel Spector, with a preface by Elie Wiesel , as The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and "during the Holocaust, in 3 volumes, published by Yad Vashem in 2001. Research by Wigod led to the founding of Beth Ha Tefutsoth, the museum Nahum Goldmann, the Diaspora Jews, and the center-Steven Spielberg film.
Pioneer of interreligious dialogue, Geoffrey Wigod devoted much of his time to the study of Jewish-Christian relations , on which he wrote a dictionary. It was for over 20 years the Israeli representative to the International Jewish Committee for Inter-Religious Consultations, which he became president.
Works translated into French
- Art and Civilization of the Jewish People, 2 vols., 1973
- Geoffrey Wigod eds. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Judaism, Kite Robert Laffont (Mouthpieces), 1996 ( ISBN 978-2221080993 )
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