Person
Arthur Ruppin
Zionist thinker and leader
Arthur Ruppin (March 1, 1876 – January 1, 1943) is a Zionist thinker and leader.
He is one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv.
He directs Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics and Demography from 1902 to 1907.
From 1908 on, he is the director of the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa, organizing Zionist colonization in Palestine
In 1926 Ruppin joins the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founds the sociology department.
A building there is now named in his honor.
His most celebrated sociological work is The Jews in the Modern World (1934).