Arthur Ruppin

Arthur Ruppin
Born(1876-03-01)1 March 1876
Rawicz, Province of Posen, Prussia, German Empire
Died1 January 1943(1943-01-01) (aged 66)
Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Resting placeKibbutz Degania Alef

Arthur Ruppin (1 March 1876 – 1 January 1943)[1] was a German Zionist and one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv.[2] Appointed director of Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics (Büro für Statistik der Juden) in 1904,[3] 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.[3] Described posthumously as the "founder of German-Jewish demography" and "father of Israeli sociology",[4] his best-known sociological work was The Jews in the Modern World (1934). He was also a proponent of pseudoscientific race theory.

  1. ^ "Obituary of Arthur Ruppin". Jewish Telegraphic Agency Archive. 4 January 1943.
  2. ^ Todd Samuel Presner, ’German Jewish Studies in the Digital Age:Remarks on Discipline, Method nand Media,' in William Collins Donahue, Martha B. Helfer (eds.), Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies, Volume 1, Camden House, 2011 ISBN 978-1-571-13501-8 pp.7-25 p.22 n.10
  3. ^ a b Bloom 2011, p. 5.
  4. ^ Bloom 2011, p. 8.