Academic Ancestry

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Joseph Sadan

Israeli orientalist1939 to 2025

Wikidata names Charles Pellat, Claude Cahen, Eliyahu Ashtor, Janine Sourdel-Thomine, and Yehoshua Blau as doctoral advisors and names Eliyahu Ashtor and Yehoshua Blau as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Joseph Sadan, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Eliyahu Ashtor

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Yehoshua Blau

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.