Victor A. Tcherikover (Hebrew: אביגדור צ'ריקובר‎; 1894–1958) was a Russian-born Israeli scholar.

He was one of the first teachers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and headed the departments of general history and classical studies.

He specialized in Jewish history in Palestine and Egypt during the Graeco-Roman period.

[1][2] “The inner quality of anti-Semitism,” he writes, “arises from the very existence of the Jewish people as an alien body among the nations.

The alien character of the Jews is the central cause of the origin of anti-Semitism.”[3]