Baruch Lifshitz

Lifshitz was born in 1913 at Davyd-Haradok in Byelorussia, where he received his early education.^[3] He studied at the Vilnius University, but had to abandon his studies and flee because of the outbreak of World War II.^[3] Lifshitz fled to Tashkent, where he was conscripted into the Red Army.^[3]

In 1946, he arrived in Palestine, and began studying history and classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[3] He earned his M.A in 1952, and his Ph.D. in 1957 at Jerusalem.^[4] 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.^[3]

Lifshitz was senior lecturer in classics and later a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[5][6][7][8] He began working at the Hebrew University in 1952 as a senior scholar.^[9] In 1957 he became an instructor, and in 1962 a lecturer.^[9]

During some twenty years of his life he published contributions to Jewish and Latin epigraphy, study of the Greek and Latin inscriptions of Palestines.^[3] He was the first to compile inscriptions of the synagogue's founders and donors in his work Donateurs et fondateurs dans les synagogues juives répertoire des dédicaces grecques relatives à la construction et à la réfection des synagogues.^[10] He has also worked as an editor and translator of ancient manuscripts.^[11] His papers have been published in more than 70 scholarly journals.^[3] Yigael Yadin has published some of his research in Israel Exploration Journal by the Israel Exploration Society.^[1][12]

Lifshitz died on September 18, 1976, in Tel Aviv, Israel.^[3]