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24 results
| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raphael Patai | Raphael Patai | 1910 | 1996 | Hungarian | Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Patai |
| Moritz Steinschneider | Moritz Steinschneider | 1816 | 1907 | Bohemian | bibliographer and Orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Steinschneider |
| Setsuzo Kotsuji | was a Japanese Orientalist, and the son of a Shinto priest who descended from a long line of Shinto priests. During the Holocaust he helped Jewish refugees to escape the Nazis, arranging for them to stay first in Kobe and later in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. He also fought against Nazi-inspired anti-Jewish propaganda. A book about how he helped Jewish refugees | null | null | Japanese | Orientalist, and the son of a Shinto priest who descended from a long line of Shinto priests | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsuzo_Kotsuji |
| Isaac Broydé | Isaac David Broydé | 1867 | 1922 | null | Orientalist and librarian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Broydé |
| Wilhelm Bacher | Wilhelm Bacher | 1850 | 1913 | Hungarian | Jewish scholar, rabbi, Orientalist and linguist, born in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary (today Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia) to the Hebrew writer Simon Bacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Bacher |
| Michael Friedländer | Michael Friedländer | 1833 | 1910 | null | Orientalist and principal of Jews' College, London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Friedländer |
| Salomon Munk | Salomon Munk | 1803 | 1867 | German | Jewish-French Orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Munk |
| Robert Caesar Childers | Robert Caesar Childers | 1838 | 1876 | British | Orientalist scholar, compiler of the first Pāli-English dictionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Caesar_Childers |
| Eliahu Eilat | Eliahu Elath | 1903 | 1990 | Israeli | diplomat and Orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliahu_Eilat |
| Hartwig Derenbourg | Hartwig Derenbourg | 1844 | 1908 | French | Orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwig_Derenbourg |
| Friedrich Rosen | Friedrich Rosen or Fritz Rosen | 1856 | 1935 | German | Orientalist, diplomat and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Rosen |
| Hartwig Hirschfeld | Hartwig Hirschfeld | 1854 | 1934 | Prussian | Orientalist, bibliographer, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwig_Hirschfeld |
| Max Seligsohn | Max Seligsohn | 1865 | 1923 | American | Orientalist, born in Imperial Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Seligsohn |
| Abraham de Sola | Abraham de Sola | 1825 | 1882 | Canadian | rabbi, author, Orientalist, and academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_de_Sola |
| Jakob Christmann | Jakob Christmann | 1554 | n/a | German | Orientalist who also studied problems of astronomy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Christmann |
| Ludwig Deutsch | Ludwig Deutsch | 1855 | 1935 | Austrian | painter who settled in Paris and became a noted Orientalist artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Deutsch |
| Léon Cahun | David Léon Cahun | 1841 | 1900 | French | traveler, Orientalist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Cahun |
| Eduard Mahler | Eduard Mahler | 1857 | 1945 | Hungarian | astronomer, Orientalist, and natural scientist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Mahler |
| Irene Eber | Irene Eber | 1929 | 2019 | Israeli | Orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Eber |
| Saadia Azankot | Saadia ben Levi Azankot | null | null | null | 17th-century Moroccan Jewish Orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadia_Azankot |
| Max Grünbaum | Maier "Max" Grünbaum | 1817 | 1898 | German | Orientalist, historian, folklorist, and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Grünbaum |
| Karl Süssheim | Karl Süssheim | 1878 | 1947 | German | historian and Orientalist of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Süssheim |
| Sofia Miliband | Sofia Davidovna Miliband | 1922 | 2017 | Russian | Orientalist and Iranist, author, Doctor of Sciences of history and bibliography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Miliband |
| Ilya Shifman | Ilya Sholeimovich Shifman | 1930 | 1990 | Soviet | historian, Orientalist and Classics scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Shifman |