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Narrative Biography of Ariel Bension, author unknown
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- Dr. Ariel BensionWriter, orator, world-traveller, mystic and scholar, philosopher and poet, such were the titles heaped upon Dr. Ariel Bension, who after a serious illness lasting for some months in the American Hospital of Paris, at the age of 45 years.In spite of his youth, Dr. Bension had a distinguished and exceedingly varied career, and it was just as his brilliant talents were winning him a high place in the Jewish literary world that the end came.Dr. Bension was born in Jerusalem, May 7, 1887. He was the descendant of two distinguished Sephardi families. On the father's side he was able to trace his descent from Rebi Abraham ibn Chasdai Ha Levi of Barcelona, the contemporary and defender of Maimonides. After the exile the family settled in Fez where Dr. Bension's father was born. On his mother's side he belonged to the Joseph and Yahuda families--two of the most outstanding families in Baghdad. Through his maternal grandmother, he was a grandnephew of David Sassoon of Bombay, Dr. Bension's father, the late Rebi Joshua Sion Ibn Chasdai Ha Levi was a great Kabbalist and Rav HaChassid of Beth-El in Jerusalem at the end of the last century.Dr. Bension was educated for the Rabbinate receiving his first training in the Yeshiba of his grandfather, Chesed-El in Jerusalem. Later he went to Europe, attending the university in Germany and in Switzerland, whence he graduated as Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Oriental philology. During the war, he served as Chaplain to the forces with the Central Empire and was decorated by the Red Cross for his services. Later he became Chief Rabbi of Belgrade Sephardi community.Always an ardent Zionist, Dr. Bension enrolled in the ranks of active workers for the Keren Hayesod when it was established in 1920 and in this capacity he visited practically every Sephardi community on theRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
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