Shelomo Dov Goitein
Ethnographer and historian
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Shelomo Dov Goitein was a German-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist known for his research on Jewish life in the Islamic Middle Ages, and particularly on the Cairo Geniza. Wikipedia
Born: April 3, 1900, Burgkunstadt, Germany
Died: February 6, 1985 (age 84 years), Philadelphia, PA
Children: Ayala Gordon
Education: University of Frankfurt
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