The son of Aaron Selig Dionach, a Russian
Zionist who had previously been imprisoned for attending the memorial service for
Theodor Herzl, Nakdimon had his early education at
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. He began studying Hebrew, Greek and Latin at
King's College, London in 1923. After two years he won the Hody Scholarship to continue his education at
Wadham College, Oxford, where he eventually took a degree in Hebrew and Arabic, and then worked for a number of years as a private scholar and bookseller. He was awarded the OBE in 1967. He was the editor of the 1972
Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary and the 1982
Concise Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage. ==Bibliography==