{{Short description|German-Jewish historian and Zionist historiographer}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand Hebrew|topic=bio|אלכסנדר ביין|date=July 2025}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|date=July 2025}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Alex Bein | native_name = אלכסנדר ביין | image = Alex Bein.jpg | alt = | caption = Alex Bein | birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|1|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Steinach an der Saale, Bavaria, Germany | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|6|20|1903|1|21|df=y}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | occupation = Historian, archivist | notable_works = {{ubl|Biography of Theodor Herzl}} | awards = Israel Prize (1987) }} '''Alex Bein''' ({{Langx|he|אלכסנדר ביין}}; 21 January 1903 – 20 June 1988) was a German-Jewish historian and Zionist historiographer best known for his biography of Theodor Herzl.<ref name=jq/>
==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.<ref name=jq/> He was director of the Central Zionist Archives and the first State Archivist of Israel.<ref name=jq>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cQOn0y8ENg4C&pg=PT1&dq=%22alex+bein+was%22 "About the Author"] in the translation of Bein's book ''The Jewish Question''</ref> <!-- chief librarian of the Israeli National Library (google books say so; to check the fact)-->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.<ref name=jq/><ref name=prize>{{Cite web | title = Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1987 (in Hebrew) | accessdate = 2009-07-03 | url = http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashmag/Tashnab_Tashmag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashmaz}}</ref>
==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"
== See also == *List of Israel Prize recipients
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==External links== *The personal papers of Alex Bein are kept at the [http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ZA/pMainE.aspx Central Zionist Archives] in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is P64 * {{Gutenberg author | id=31211| name=Alex Bein}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Alex Bein}}
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