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|birth_date=12 August 1912 | |||
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|birth_place=Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland | |||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Dimont was born into a Jewish family on August 12, 1912, in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire, one of five children. | |||
Dimont finished high school in Finland, where he learned German. He finished four years of American high school in two years. | |||
Max Isaac Dimont (August 12, 1912 – March 25, 1992) was a Finnish American Jewish historian, lecturer, publicist, and writer. Between 1962 and 1994, Jews, God and History sold over 1.5 million copies, was reprinted 17 times, and was translated into six languages. Ethel finished writing the Jews, God and History revision and published it herself in 1993. | |||
Due to passenger lists on the ship on which they traveled. His father, Hyman Dimont, was a merchandise broker and Talmudic scholar, and returned to teaching Hebrew in his later years. He claims that he spoke "Elizabethan English" or "beautiful King James English" for his first few years in the United States. | |||
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* Born 12 August 1912 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland | |||
* Died 25 March 1992 in St. Louis, Missouri | |||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Dimont Max Dimont — Wikipedia] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_I._Dimont Max I. Dimont — Wikipedia] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_I._Dimont Max I. Dimont — Wikipedia] | ||
* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data | * Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data | ||