Haiim B. Rosén (1922-1999) received his philological and linguistic training in Europe and Israel, and taught in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and, on various occasions, in France, Germany and the United States. He has published extensively in the field of Indo-European and Semitic Linguistics (cf. the three volumes of «East and West. Selected Writings in Linguistics»), and has made a pioneering contribution to the description of contemporary Hebrew. His editions and linguistic studies of Herodotus and Homer are basic reference tools for classical scholars.

A first-rate connoisseur of the history of linguistics, especially of pre-structuralist and structuralist linguistics, Prof. H.B. Rosén was one of the founders, with H.-J. Polotsky, of the Jerusalem school of structuralist-functionalist linguistics.

The book contains a detailed bio-bibliographical survey of H.B. Rosén's life and work; the survey is followed by Prof. Rosén's hitherto unpublished text (edited by Hannah Rosén) "The Jerusalem Scool of Linguistics and the Prague School".