| Personal data |
| Surname | Khozias |
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| Name | Beola |
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| Patronym | Yankelevna |
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| Birth year | 1940 |
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| Birth month | 1 |
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| Birth day | 2 |
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| birth_place | Jēkabpils |
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Edelman Rafael (1902-1972)
| people |
| surname | Edelman |
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| name | Rafael |
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| birth_year | 1902 |
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| birth_place | Rēzekne, Vitebsk Governorate |
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| death_year | 1972 |
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| death_place | Copenhagen |
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Edelman Rafael (1902, Rēzekne, Vitebsk Governorate — 1972, Copenhagen) — philologist. PhD (1928).
Studied at the Universities of Copenhagen and Berlin, and at the Rabbinical Seminary (Berlin); in 1928, graduated from the University of Bonn.
From 1927–33, taught there. From 1933 — in Denmark.
In 1946, adviser to the Danish delegation at the UNESCO General Assembly (Paris); from 1948, headed the Jewish department of the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
From 1955, chairman of the Association of Yiddish and Hebrew Libraries in Europe; from 1961, member of the Council of the World Union of Jewish Studies. In 1946–49, member of the council of the Jewish community in Copenhagen.
Author of works on mediaeval Jewish literature.
Awarded the Order of Dannebrog (1953).
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