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Harold Fisch was born on 25 March, 1923 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, is a British-Israeli author, literary critic, translator, and diplomat. Discover Harold Fisch's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 25 March 1923
Birthday 25 March
Birthplace Birmingham, United Kingdom
Date of death November 8, 2001
Died Place Jerusalem, Israel
Nationality United Kingdom

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His wife is Frances Joyce Roston (m. 1947)

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Children Menachem Fisch David Harel Yossi Harel-Fisch

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1920

Fisch's father, born in Wolbrom, Poland, studied at Rabbi Solomon Breuer's yeshiva in Frankfurt before emigrating to England in 1920, where he received a doctorate from the University of Manchester.

As a child, Fisch moved between Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield, and Leeds, where his father took up posts as a congregational rabbi.

1923

Harold Fisch (25 March 1923, Birmingham – 8 November 2001, Jerusalem), also known as Aharon Harel-Fisch (אַהֲרֹן הַרְאֵל-פִישׁ), was a British-Israeli author, literary critic, translator, and diplomat.

1932

During the era of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Fisch was a member of the Israeli delegation to the 32nd General Assembly of the United Nations.

He declined an offer from the Prime Minister to occupy the position of Ambassador of Israel to the Netherlands.

1940

Fisch began his undergraduate degree in English literature at the University of Sheffield in 1940, at the age of 17.

1942

His studies were interrupted by his service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1942 to 1945, as an officer on HMS Meynell and HMS Kildary.

1946

He completed his B.A. in 1946, and was appointed Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds the following year, meanwhile serving as chairman of the Inter-University Jewish Federation.

1948

In 1948, he received his BLitt from the University of Oxford, with a thesis on Calvinist bishop Joseph Hall.

1957

In 1957, Fisch immigrated to Israel with his wife and four children, and accepted an associate professorship in English literature at the newly founded Bar-Ilan University.

1964

He was appointed full professor in 1964, and held the position of Rector from 1968 to 1971.

Fisch was responsible for the English translation of the Tanakh for the Koren Jerusalem Bible (1964), based on Michael Friedländer's Jewish Family Bible, which is still in publication and on its third edition.

Fisch participated in the establishment of the Neo-Zionist Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War.

1968

He was a Professor of English and Comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University, of which he served as Rector from 1968 to 1971.

1971

Fisch founded the Kotler Institute for Judaism and Contemporary Thought in 1971, and the Lechter Institute for Literary Research in 1981, of which he served as chairman until his retirement from Bar-Ilan in 1987.

1972

His 1972 work A Zionist Revolution included a defense of Gush Emunim, based on the ideas of Menachem Kasher and Abraham Isaac Kook.

2000

He was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature in 2000.

Harold (Aharon) Fisch was born in Birmingham to Rebecca (née Swift) and Rabbi Dr. Solomon Fisch.

His mother was the sister of Rabbi Morris Swift, who was a dayan of the London Beth Din for nearly two decades.

Fisch was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature in 2000.

2001

He died on 8 November 2001 of a tumor discovered two weeks earlier.