Solodukho (Soloducho) Yudel (Judel) Orelievich (1877, Oshmyany, Vilna Governorate — 1963, Leningrad) — historian-orientalist, Hebraist, Arabist. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1938).

Yudel Solodukho graduated externally from the Teachers’ Institute in Riga (1907). Until 1924, he taught at various educational institutions; from 1924 to 1932, he was an associate of the Local Bureau of the Section of Scientific Workers of the Union of Education Workers of the USSR. From 1932 to 1950, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

He was the author of approximately 100 scholarly works on the ancient history of Iraq and Syria, as well as on the history and socio-economic structure of Jewish communities in these countries.

Works:

“The Mazdak Movement and the Uprising of the Jewish Population of Iraq in the First Half of the 6th Century AD” — Vestnik Drevnei Istorii, 1940, Nos. 3–4. (Движение Маздака и восстание еврейского населения Ирака в первой половине 6 в.н. э. – Вестник древней истории, 1940, № 3–4)

“The Significance of Early Medieval Jewish Sources for the History of the Near East” — in: Soviet Oriental Studies, issue 2. Moscow–Leningrad, 1941. (Значение еврейских источников раннего средневековья для истории Бл. Востока. – В кн.: Сов. востоковедение: вып. 2. М.–Л., 1941).

“Socio-economic Structures of Jewish Society in Iraq and Syria in the 2nd–5th Centuries AD” — Scholarly Notes of Leningrad State University, No. 78, Series of Historical Sciences, issue 9, 1941 (Соц.-экон. структуры еврейского об-ва Ирака и Сирии во 2–5 вв. н.э. – Ученые записки ЛГУ, № 78. Сер. ист. наук, вып. 9, 1941)

“Persian Administrative-Legal, Socio-economic and Cultural-Domestic Lexicon in Jewish-Iraqi Literary Monuments of the Sasanian Period” — in: The Ancient World. Moscow, 1962(Персидская адм.-право-вая, соц.-экон. и культурно-бытовая лексика в еврейско-иракских лит. памятниках сасанидского периода. – В кн.: Древний мир. М., 1962.).