Lydia Aran
Lydia Aran (; October 1921 – March 5, 2013 in Jerusalem), was a professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a scholar of Buddhism. She taught in the Hebrew University's Department of Indian Studies until her retirement in 1998. Aran was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she survived the Holocaust by being hidden, with her twin sister, in the small village of Ignalina by her high school history teacher, Krystyna Adolph, an ethnically Polish Catholic. Books The Art of Nepal Buddhism: An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy and Religion (Hebrew) 1993 Destroying a Civilization: Tibet 1950-2000 (Hebrew) 2007 References Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Holocaust survivors 20th-century Lithuanian Jews Lithuanian emigrants to Israel Writers from Vilnius 2013 deaths 1921 births Lithuanian women writers