Хаим Тадмор: Израильдік ассириолог өмірі мен еңбектері

Israeli assyriologist
Hayim Tadmor (born Frumstein) (November 18, 1923, Harbin, China–December 11, 2005, Jerusalem) was a leading Israeli Assyriologist. As a student of Benno Landsberger and Sidney Smith, his knowledge was grounded in immediate knowledge and experience that went back to the earliest years of Assyriology.

Hayim Tadmor was born in Harbin, Manchuria, as Hayim Frumstein. He also edited the Biblical Encyclopaedia vols. 6 8, and with Mordechai Cogan published a new translation and scholarly interpretation of the Second Book of Kings.

He was appointed as a professor in 1971 and was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1985. He held visiting professorships at the universities of Yale, City University of New York, Ann Arbor, Pennsylvania, and Berkeley. Having retired in 1994, he was elected Vice President of the Israel Academy in 1996, serving until 2004. In USA he was elected honorary member of the American Oriental Society and a Fellow of the Academy for Jewish Research. In 2000 he was awarded the Rothschild Prize for his life’s work. He received an honour from the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences in Harbin. Two Festschriften appeared, one in his honour and another a joint tribute for him and his wife. Another volume was published in his memory by the Israel Academy. In 2010 his and his wife’s library was acquired by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World of New York University, where it is available for readers. His papers are held at the Hebrew University Archive.

In 1953 Tadmor married Miriam Yehieli, née Skura, a fellow student and archaeologist. The couple had two children: Naomi, and David.