Back to search results

Kahana, Avraham

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Archive

The archive of the Kahana family transferred to the Central Archive for the History of the Jewish People by the lawyer Ben Zion (Benzi) Kahana from Raanana, the grandson of the Tanakh researcher Avraham Kahana. The archive contains documents and materials of Ben Zion Kahana's ancestors on the side of his father Yakov Kahana - Kahana and Sheftel from Berdichev families (including documents of the barons Gintsburg), and on the side of his mother Shulamit (Buba) Kahana (nee Aharoni) - families of Lifshitz from Antopol and of Aronovich (Aharoni) from Vilna. Avraham Kahana (Abram Mordkovich / Markovich Kagan; Heb. אברהם כהנא‏‎; 19.12.1874, the village of Skomorokhi, Zhytomyr district – 20.02.1946, Tel Aviv), historian, translator, researcher of the Tanakh, autodidact. As a professor of Kyiv University, in 1922-1923 he emigrated with his family through Poland to Palestine, which he first visited in 1914; the family settled in Tel Aviv, where Kahana managed the "Shaar Zion" library and taught at the Levinsky Seminary. From 1929 he devoted himself entirely to research, translation into Hebrew and the publication of Jewish apocrypha in the "Mekorot" publishing house he founded (in 1937 he was awarded the Bialik Prize). His wife Yenta-Hana Sheftel (Anna; 1873, according to other sources 1.02. 1875 Berdichev – 13.02.1940, Tel Aviv), daughter of the owner of a printing house in Berdichev, Yaakov Sheftel; three children of Avraham and Hana: Uriel (1903-65), Yaakov (1906-81, father of Benzion Kahana) and Miriam (1908-55).

Reference Code
P471
Dates
1819-1922
Consists of
441 files.
Languages
und;
Title Kahana, Avraham.
Host Item Kahana, Avraham - Private Collection.
Level of Description Fonds Record
National Library system number 997012338276805171
Links פרטים על מיקום החומר/Location&access
      1. Show Next 10 Items out of 480
      2. Show All

תנאי השימוש:

Appropriate Conditions of Use Have Been Established for Every Archive File

The terms of use appear on the archival file page on the National Library website.

For more information about the copyright status inquiry service and terms of use for items from the Library’s collections, click here.

MARC RECORDS

Have more information? Found a mistake?