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Yitzhak Arad

1926 - 2021

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Yitzhak Arad (Hebrew: יצחק ארד; né Icchak Rudnicki; November 11, 1926 – May 6, 2021) was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yitzhak Arad is the 273rd most popular historian (down from 268th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 94th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Yitzhak Arad ranks 268 out of 561. Before him are Bernard Desclot. After him are Francisco López de Gómara, Juan de Mariana, Malchus, Al-Nuwayri, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Zuo Qiuming, Muhammad Aufi, Alexander Svanidze, Régine Pernoud, Annius of Viterbo, and Max Jakob Friedländer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Yitzhak Arad ranks 220. Before him are Johanna Quandt, Ursula Happe, Ladislav Adamec, Frank Finlay, Big Mama Thornton, and Emmanuel Wamala. After him are Cedella Booker, Mickey Hargitay, Joseíto, Jon Vickers, Borys Romanchenko, and Juan Hohberg. Among people deceased in 2021, Yitzhak Arad ranks 248. Before him are Yegor Ligachyov, Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Joey Jordison, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Koichi Sugiyama, and Ursula Happe. After him are Leon Spinks, José Freire Falcão, John Miles, Carlos Correia, Louis Andriessen, and Judith Reisman.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Yitzhak Arad ranks 91 out of 328. Before him are Clara Rockmore (1911), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), Kazimieras Būga (1879), Irena Veisaitė (1928), Tomas Venclova (1937), and Šarūnas Jasikevičius (1976). After him are Bernard Berenson (1865), Alma Adamkienė (1927), Al Jolson (1886), Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (1871), Raphael Kalinowski (1835), and Silvestras Žukauskas (1860).

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Among HISTORIANS In Lithuania

Among historians born in Lithuania, Yitzhak Arad ranks 2. Before him are Joseph Klausner (1874). After him are Bernard Berenson (1865), and Donald Kagan (1932).

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