Lydia Aran, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Professor emerita:Hebrew University of Jerusalem/scholar of Buddhism
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Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
About Lydia Aran
- Lydia Aran (Hebrew: ????? ???; October 1921 – March 5, 2013 in Jerusalem), a professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a scholar of Buddhism.
- She taught in the Hebrew University's Department of Indian Studies until her retirement in 1998. Aran's dramatic life story began in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she survived the Holocaust by being hidden, with her twin sister, in the small village of Ignalina by her high school history teacher, Krystyna Adolph, an ethnically Polish Catholic.
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