Baruch Lifshitz

Baruch Lifshitz (; 1913, Davyd-Haradok – 1976, Tel Aviv) was a Belarusian professor of the Department of Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He participated in excavations in Israel, and his research has been published in different referenced works.

Life Lifshitz was born in 1913 at Davyd-Haradok in Byelorussia, where he received his early education. He studied at the Vilnius University, but had to abandon his studies and flee because of the outbreak of World War II. His dissertation was entitled The Protection of Graves in Grave Inscriptions in Eretz-Israel, and while preparing his doctoral thesis, he studied Greek epigraphy in Paris with professor Louis Robert. He began working at the Hebrew University in 1952 as a senior scholar.

During some twenty years of his life he published contributions to Jewish and Latin epigraphy, study of the Greek and Latin inscriptions of Palestines. He has also worked as an editor and translator of ancient manuscripts. His papers have been published in more than 70 scholarly journals.

Lifshitz died on September 18, 1976, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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