Hanoch Yelon Explained

Hanoch Yelon חנוך ילון
Birth Date:	1886
Birth Place:	Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Death Date:	January 18, 1970 (aged 83 or 84)
Death Place:	Israel
Occupation:	historian
Language:	Hebrew
Citizenship:	Israeli
Awards:	Israel Prize (1962)

Hanoch Yelon (Hebrew: חנוך ילון) (born 1886; died 18 January 1970) was an Israeli linguist and leading Talmudic researcher.

Biography

Yelon was born in 1886 in a small village in Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary (later part of Poland and now in Ukraine).

Following the end of World War I, he moved to Vienna and in 1921, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine, living in Jerusalem.

Yelon, an expert in Mishnaic Hebrew and grammar, vocalized the text in Hanoch Albeck's edition of the Mishnah.^[1]

Awards

• In 1962, Yelon was awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish studies.^[2]

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

Notes and References

1. Yalon (originally Distenfeld), Hanoch," in Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd. ed., eds. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (Macmillan Reference USA, 2007), 21:276-277.
2. Web site: Israel Prize recipients in 1962 (in Hebrew). Israel Prize Official Site. https://web.archive.org/web/20120307204019/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashyag/Tashkab_Tashyag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashkab. 7 March 2012. 1 July 2010. live.