RABIN, Chaim Menachem. Giessen 22.11.1915 — Jerusalem 13.5.1996. Israeli (born in Germany) Linguist and Semitic Scholar. Son of historian Israel Rabin and Martel Wolodarsky. Educated in Frankfurt a. M., after matriculation in 1933 moved to Jerusalem.. In 1933-34 studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, then at S.O.A.S. B.A. 1937 London. Ph.D. 1939 London, in Arabic. In 1938-41 Lecturer at S.O.A.S. After short internment further studies at Oxford: M.A. and D.Phil. 1942, in Hebrew. In 1943-56Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew at Oxford. From 1956 Associate Professor, then 1963 full Professor of Hebrew at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, retired 1985. Married Batya, at least one child.
Publications: Much on Semitics (Arabic dialects, Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.), also wrote on Indo-Aryan and Dravidian loans in Hebrew (in Hebrew).
Sources: Who’s Who Tamil Res. 1968; Wikipedia.
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