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2023 - Volume 7 - Number 2

The First Hebrew Detective, David Tidhar, as a Freemason

Eli Eshed * ORCID: 0009-0000-2288-8977
Ben-Gurion University, Department of Hebrew Literature, Be'er Sheva, ISRAEL

Daniel Galily * ORCID: 0000-0001-9111-4502
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philosophical and Political Sciences, Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA

Open Journal for Studies in Philosophy, 2023, 7(2), 27-37 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsp.0702.02027e
Received: 17 November 2023 ▪ Revised: 22 December 2023 ▪ Accepted: 31 December 2023

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
This article is about David Tidhar. He is an important character in Israeli History, the Hebrew first private detective who had become the first hero of Hebrew detective fiction and historian who was also an important Mason and a historian of Masonry in the land of Israel. The main points in the article are: Introduction. David Tidhar as the first Hebrew private detective; David Tidhar as the first Hebrew detective in the British Mandatory Palestine Police; His character in Hebrew Detective fiction at the beginning of the 20th century; The villain from Corfu; David Tidhar as a member of a secret fraternities; Barkai Lodge of Freemasons in Israel; David Tidhar as a member of Barkai Masonic Lodge; Conclusion.

KEY WORDS: David Tidhar, Freemason, Hebrew detective.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Eli Eshed, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Hebrew Literature, Be'er Sheva, ISRAEL.

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