Abraham Wasserstein

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Abraham Wasserstein

Literature

#6168

World Rank

#9322

Historical Rank

Classical Studies

#164

World Rank

#331

Historical Rank

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Abraham Wasserstein's Degrees

• PhD Classics University of Oxford
• Bachelors Classics University of Oxford

Why Is Abraham Wasserstein Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Abraham "Addi" Wasserstein was a German-born British and Israeli classicist, a professor of classics at the University of Leicester in the UK and then at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Early life Wasserstein was born in born Frankfurt am Main in Germany on 5 October 1921. His parents were Galician; his father was a raincoat manufacturer in Berlin. Wasserstein was educated at a Jewish school in Berlin, although his education was disrupted by the rise of Nazism in Germany. As a Jew his life was endangered due to the virulent antisemitism, and he was among those Jews expelled towards Poland on 28 October 1938. Denied entry by the Poles, he spent a year in a camp on the border at Zbąszyń, before leaving for Rome in later summer 1939 and then to Turkey, and finally Palestine in 1941, where he met his wife-to-be, Margaret , a fellow refugee.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Abraham Wasserstein?

Abraham Wasserstein is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Leicester
• University of Oxford
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem