Yellin, Avinoam
- Born: Mar 2, 1900
- Marriage (1): Gruenhut, Elza
- Died: Oct 23, 1937, Jerusalem, Israel at age 37
General Notes:
Avinoam was an Orientalist and teacher of Arabic leterature. He worked for the Palestine Ministry of Education with the official title of Mandate Government Inspector of the Jewish Schools. He was shot on October 21, 1937, during the period of t he Arab riots, as he was entering his office, and died two days later. He collaborated with Levi Billig on a book about teaching Arabic entitled An Arabic Reader (1931, reprinted 1963). Billig, a lectrurer in Arabic at the Hebrew University an d a believer in Jewish-Arab reconciliation, had also been murdered by an Arab sniper the year before. The Avinoam Botanical Garden in the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem was named in his honor by his parents, David and It a Yellin, after their sons death.
Avinoam, like his parents, was also awarded the M.B.E. by the British.
Avinoam's wife Elza, was a daughter of Dr. Elezar (Lazar) Halevi Gruenhut (1850-1913). He was born in Gerenda, Hungary, son of Rabbi Moshe Gruenhut. Eleazer was rabbi of Temesvar, Hungary and also studied secular subjects. He came to Eretz Yisr ael and was involved in the Mizrachi movement. He was a scholar of Midrash, Palestinian geography and also director of the Jewish boys' orphanage in Jaffa.
Avinoam married Elza Gruenhut, daughter of Dr. Elezar (Lazar) Halevi Gruenhut and Unknown.
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