Victor Tcherikover
{{short description|Russian-Israeli scholar}}
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{{infobox scholar
| image = File:Avigdor Cherikover.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|9|15}}
| birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1958|1|16|1894|9|15}}
| death_place = Jerusalem, Israel
| burial_place = Har HaMenuchot
| nationality = Israeli
| education = Moscow State University
Humboldt University of Berlin
| employer = Hebrew University of Jerusalem
| native_name = אביגדור צ'ריקובר
| native_name_lang = he
}}
Victor A. Tcherikover ({{langx|he|אביגדור צ'ריקובר}}; 1894–1958) was a Russian-born Israeli scholar.
Biography
Born in Russia, he settled in Palestine in 1925. He was one of the first teachers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and headed the departments of general history and classical studies. He specialized in Jewish history in Palestine and Egypt during the Graeco-Roman period.{{cite book|first=John J.|last=Collins|author-link=John J. Collins|first2=Daniel C.|last2=Harlow|title=The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism|publisher=Eerdmans Publishing Company|date=Nov 11, 2010|ISBN=978-0-802-82549-0}}{{cite book|first=Victor|last=Tcherikover|title=Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews|location=New York|publisher=Atheneum|date=1975}}
Publications
- {{cite book|title=Ha-Yehudim veha-Yevanim ba-tekufah ha-Helenistit|date=1930}}
- {{cite book|title=Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews|date=1959}} {[https://www.commentary.org/articles/moses-hadas/hellenistic-civilization-and-the-jews-by-victor-tcherikover/ Review] by Moses Hadas}
- Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. Vol. 1–2 with Alexander Fuks (1957–1960). Tcherikover was succeeded for the third volume (1963) by Menahem Stern.
Quotes
“The inner quality of anti-Semitism,” he writes, “arises from the very existence of the Jewish people as an alien body among the nations. The alien character of the Jews is the central cause of the origin of anti-Semitism.”https://www.commentary.org/articles/moses-hadas/hellenistic-civilization-and-the-jews-by-victor-tcherikover/
References
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Category:20th-century Russian historians
Category:Historians of Jews and Judaism
Category:Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Category:20th-century Israeli historians
Category:Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine