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Moshe Zvi Segal (Hebrew: משה צבי סגל) (born 23 September 1876; died 11 January 1968) was an eminent Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar.

Early life

Segal was born in Lithuania in 1876. In 1896, he moved with his family to Scotland and subsequently to London. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1902 and later obtained a degree from Oxford University.

He emigrated to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1926.

Awards

• In 1936 (jointly with Raphael Patai) and again in 1950, Segal was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought.^[1]
• In 1954, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Jewish studies.^[2]

References

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of Bialik Prize recipients
• Segal