Family Child
Aya Dinstein
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q215779 · wikidata
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Arthur Ruppin
1876-03-01 – 1943-01-01
Life & Legacy
Arthur Ruppin (Hebrew: ארתור רופין; 1 March 1876 – 1 January 1943) was a German Zionist and one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv.
Appointed director of Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics (Büro für Statistik der Juden) in 1904, he moved to Palestine in 1907, and from 1908 was the director of the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa, organizing Zionist immigration to Palestine. In 1926, Ruppin joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the Department for the Sociology of the Jews. Described posthumously as the "founder of German-Jewish demography" and "father of Israeli sociology", his best-known sociological work was The Jews in the Modern World (1934). He was also a proponent of pseudoscientific race theory.
Occupation & Career
philosopher, politician, pedagogue, demographer, sociologist, economist, Zionist, university teacher, merchant
Education
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Legacy Highlights
Employer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Organizations & Memberships
Brit Shalom
Education & Institutions
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Verified Legacy Record
Family Spouse
Shulamit Ruppin
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q215779 · wikidata
Sources & Provenance
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