Lydia Aran

Female, Person

1921 –

89

Who is Lydia Aran?

Lydia Aran, 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 Vilna, Lithuania, where she survived the Holocaust by being hidden, with her twin sister, in the small village of Ignalino by her high school history teacher, Kyrstyna Adolph, an ethnically Polish Catholic.

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Born
1921
Died
May 7, 2024

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on July 23, 2013

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