M.H. Segal ז״ל
Moses Hirsch (Zvi) Segal (=M.H. Segal) ז”ל was born in Meisyad (Mosedis) in 1876, in north western Lithuania and received a rabbinic education, before emigrating to the United Kingdom in 1894. He was married to Hannah Leah Frumkin, the daughter of the renowned scholar Aryeh Leb Frumkin and herself a learned and highly literate woman, who had earlier lived in Turkish Palestine. They settled in Oxford in 1901 where he ministered to the local Jewish community and studied Hebrew Bible and Semitic languages at the University, graduating BA in 1906 and MA in 1910. They had five children, who had to converse with their parents in Hebrew from their earliest years. He held rabbinic posts in England before settling in Mandatory Palestine in 1926 as a lecturer (later Professor) in Bible at the Hebrew University. He taught many worthy students and published widely. His best known books concern rabbinic Hebrew, the literary history of the Hebrew Bible, Jewish biblical exegesis and the book of Ben Sira. He passed away in 1968. His son Judah Benzion and his granddaughter Naomi were both appointed to professorships at the University of London.
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