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Zeev Sternhell

1935 - 2020

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Zeev Sternhell (Hebrew: זאב שטרנהל‎; 10 April 1935 – 21 June 2020) was a Polish-born Israeli historian, political scientist, commentator on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and writer. He was one of the world's leading theorists of the phenomenon of fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and wrote for Haaretz newspaper. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zeev Sternhell is the 258th most popular historian (down from 210th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from Poland (down from 620th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Zeev Sternhell ranks 258 out of 561Before him are Charles Rollin, Iryna Melnykova, Richard G. Hovannisian, Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, Heinrich Graetz, and Régine Pernoud. After him are Alexander Svanidze, William H. Prescott, Lucius Coelius Antipater, Philistus, Hermann Conring, and Thomas the Archdeacon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Zeev Sternhell ranks 199Before him are Jack Welch, Yıldırım Akbulut, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, Katalin Szőke, Sadiq al-Mahdi, and Juan Bautista Agüero. After him are Nicola Cabibbo, Nabil Elaraby, Seymour Cassel, Tom Atkins, Peter Brown, and La Monte Young. Among people deceased in 2020, Zeev Sternhell ranks 254Before him are Nur Hassan Hussein, Stuart Whitman, Italo De Zan, Ann E. Todd, Hans-Jochen Vogel, and Branko Kostić. After him are Nina Bocharova, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Jörn Donner, Daria Nicolodi, Vyacheslav Kebich, and Ray Clemence.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zeev Sternhell ranks 678 out of 1,694Before him are August Hlond (1881), Hilary Koprowski (1916), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Richard Herrmann (1923), Henryk Jabłoński (1909), and Henner Henkel (1915). After him are Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Jan Czochralski (1885), Bolesław II the Horned (1217), Vyacheslav Kebich (1936), Remus von Woyrsch (1847), and Julian Marchlewski (1866).

Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Zeev Sternhell ranks 9Before him are Richard Pipes (1923), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Otto von Gierke (1841), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), and Heinrich Graetz (1817). After him are Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Israel Gutman (1923), Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), and Jan T. Gross (1947).