The History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A 100 years after the Zionist congress decided to establish the university in Jerusalem (Vienna, 1913), this volume, the 4th in the series, is being published.

The first three volumes were dedicated to the roots of the idea to establish a cultural and spiritual infrastructure of a national entity in the state of Israel and the founding of the university and it's progress during the steps towards an Israeli state.
The first chapter in the history of this establishment ended when it was brought down from Mt. Scopus in 1948.

The first volume of this series revealed to the reader the complexity of establishing this university through detailed and in-depth studies that dealt with the scientific, organizational and political aspects of the process.
Only a small part of these studies were dedicated to the people behind the process.

This volume lays before us the biographies of the first founders and professors of this university to make their mark on the establishment and development of the university during the mandate years.

There are three parts to the book. The first part tells about the founders and designers of this institution and includes the people of action who accompanied it's setting up and enabled it's functioning. The second part is dedicated to the theoretical sciences: Humanities, Jewish Studies and the first researchers in the law and society fields.
The third part brings us the biographies of the teachers and researches in the Mathematics and Experimental sciences fields.

This book is dedicated to the people who arrived in Jerusalem under different circumstances from around the world.
Thanks to their cooperation on Mt. Scopus, they enabled the fulfillment of an idea, first conceived in the second half of the 19th century, and turned into a successful reality during the settlement period.