Aron Dotan

Aron Dotan was born in 1928 in Stuttgart

Dotan was born Aron Deutscher in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1928. In 1933, after the Nazis took power, he moved with his parents to the Land of Israel and settled in Haifa. As a youth he was active in Bnei Akiva.

In 1947 he began studying Hebrew language, Bible and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He returned to his studies in 1949 and finished them in 1951. In 1963 he completed a doctorate on a grammar work by Aaron ben Moses ben Asher.

From 1951 he was scientific secretary of the Hebrew Language Committee, and in 1971 he became a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. In 1961 he joined Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University, where he worked until 1996. He edited an edition of the Leningrad Codex used as the Bible of the IDF.

In 1992 he helped found an international organization for Masorah research and became its president. In 1997 he founded the Jewish Heritage Center at Tel Aviv University. He lived in Ramat Aviv and died in 2022.