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Benzion Netanyahu

1910 - 2012

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Benzion Netanyahu (Hebrew: בֶּנְצִיּוֹן נְתַנְיָהוּ; born Benzion Mileikowsky; March 25, 1910 – April 30, 2012) was a Polish-born Israeli encyclopedist, historian, and medievalist. He served as a professor of history at Cornell University. A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state. His field of expertise was the history of the Jews in Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benzion Netanyahu is the 68th most popular historian, the 173rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 181st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Benzion Netanyahu ranks 68 out of 561. Before him are Heinrich Wölfflin, Tzvetan Todorov, Jared Diamond, Libanius, Movses Khorenatsi, and Callisthenes. After him are Theopompus, Bernard Lewis, Theophylact Simocatta, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Ephorus, and Johann Jakob Bachofen.

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Among people born in 1910, Benzion Netanyahu ranks 39. Before him are William Hanna, Samuel Barber, William Shockley, Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Edda Mussolini, and Jean Anouilh. After him are Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Nathuram Godse, Tjalling Koopmans, Luise Rainer, António de Spínola, and Pierre Schaeffer. Among people deceased in 2012, Benzion Netanyahu ranks 42. Before him are Robin Gibb, Kiro Gligorov, John Demjanjuk, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Antoni Tàpies, and Carroll Shelby. After him are Mike Wallace, Ravi Shankar, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Stephen Covey, Sven Hassel, and Jean Giraud.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Benzion Netanyahu ranks 173 out of 1,694. Before him are Andrzej Duda (1972), Maria Feodorovna (1759), Jan Potocki (1761), Maxim Litvinov (1876), Solomon Asch (1907), and Georg Michaelis (1857). After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Erich Mendelsohn (1887), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Günther Anders (1902), and John I Albert (1459).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Benzion Netanyahu ranks 2. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen (1808). After him are Richard Pipes (1923), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Otto von Gierke (1841), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), and Israel Gutman (1923).

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