Benzion Netanyahu, Russian-Israeli historian and academic (born 1910)

Benzion Netanyahu

Jewish encyclopedist, historian and medievalist (1910–2012)

Benzion Netanyahu was a Polish-born Israeli encyclopedist, historian, and medievalist. He served as a professor of history at Cornell University. A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support…