Perlmann, Moshe (Personal Name)

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Ṭabarī, 838?-923. The history of al-Tabari, 1986: CIP t.p. (Moshe Perlmann)

LC data base, 7-15-85 (hdg.: Perlmann, Moshe)

Studies in memory of Moshe Perlmann, 2009: page 1, etc. (Moshe Perlmann, born 28 September 1905 in Odessa; lived for the next ten years or so in Budapest; returned to Odessa and attended the University of Odessa until he was expelled for Jewish socialist activities in 1924; emigrated to Palestine where he stayed from 1925 to 1937; attended the Hebrew University, studying Arabic and Islamic culture from 1930 to 1935. Between 1937 and 1940 he resided in London and completed a dissertation on A study of Muslim polemics directed against Jews at the School of Oriental Studies, University of London. He came to New York in 1940 and taught at Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Institute (1941-1955) and Brooklyn College (1943-1944), and was research secretary of the Hadassah Committee for the Study of Arab-Jewish Relations between 1941 and 1943, and was research associate at the American Zionist Emergency Council of the Jewish Agency (1943). In 1941 he married Ida Brenner. From 1945 to 1952 he taught at the New School for Social Research in the Center for the Study of the Near and Middle East. Between 1948 and 1955 he taught at Dropsie College. He was on the faculty of Harvard between 1955 and 1961. He became a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research in 1960. In 1961 he was offered the chair of Arabic at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he remained until his retirement in 1973. He also taught at the University of Judaism from 1962 to 1975. He and his wife moved to Brookline, Mass. to be near their son, Joel, and Moshe Perlmann died in 2001.

Moshe Perlmann, 1905-2001 [Obituary], http://www.aajr.org/obituaries/ (Moshe Perlmann, died September 7, 2001)