| LC control no. | n 80097245 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Scharfstein, Ben-Ami, 1919-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Sharfshṭain, Ben-ʻAmi, 1919-2019 Scharfstein, B.-A. (Ben-Ami), 1919-2019 שרפשטיין, בן עמי, 1919-2019־ שרפשטיין, בן-עמי |
| Associated country | United States Israel |
| Birth date | 1919-04-12 |
| Death date | 2019-12 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv (Israel) |
| Field of activity | Philosophy Philosophy, Comparative Religion College teaching |
| Affiliation | Universiṭat Tel-Aviv |
| Profession or occupation | Authors College teachers Philosophers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Author's Roots of Bergson's philosophy, 1943. Interpretation in religion, 1992: CIP t.p. (B.-A. Scharfstein) Hagadah shel Pesaḥ, c1959: t.p. (Ben-ʻAmi Sharfshṭain) Scharfstein, Ben-Ami. A comparative history of world philosophy, 1998: title page (Ben-Ami Scharfstein) page 659 (Ben-Ami Scharfstein, born April 12, 1919, in New York City ; taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the Teacher's Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the University of Utah ; in 1955, moved to Israel, where he founded the department of philosophy of Tel-Aviv University) back cover (Ben-Ami Scharfstein is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University ; he is the author of eleven books, including Amoral Politics: the persistent truth of Machiavellism and Ineffability: the failure of words in philosophy and religion) IU Press Journals website viewed Jan. 4, 2022 (Ben-Ami Scharfstein: a philosophical farewell / Daniel Raveh ; Ben-Ami Schfstein, a visionary of comparative philosophy, passed away in Tel Aviv in December 2019 at the age of one hundred ; he was born in New York and studied at Brooklyn College (BA), Harvard University (MA) and Columbia University (PhD, 1942) ; he later immigrated to Israel and was one of the founders of the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University) <https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/4058/306> |
| Associated language | eng heb |
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