Alex Aronson (author)

On contacting Rabindranath Tagore he was asked to get in touch with Amiya Chakravarty and Charles Freer Andrews, who were in London at that time.

[1] With the outbreak of World War II, Aronson suddenly became an "enemy alien" for the British colonial rulers in India.

With many months of dedication and hard work, he classified the newspaper articles and correspondence, and laid the foundations of the archives at Santiniketan.

In 2000, Visva Bharati published Dear Mr. Tagore, a collection of letters from well known writers, scholars and public figures in Europe and America.

[1] Aronson taught at the University of Dhaka in East Bengal (now Bangladesh) for two years before immigrating to Palestine after the war.

After immigrating to British-mandate Palestine, Aronson took up different teaching assignments, most importantly at the Aleph Municipal High School in Tel Aviv, where he taught for many years, having a lasting influence on students such as Dan Miron.

He continued writing – Music and the Novel, two books on Shakespeare, one on twentieth century diaries and three volumes of his autobiography.

At the request of the vice-chancellor, Martin Kämpchen went and delivered the Insignia of Desikottama at his home on the slopes of Mountain Carmel, overlooking Haifa.