High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nakdimon Shabbethay Doniach OBE (May 8, 1907 London, England – April 16, 1994 Oxford, England) was a lexicographer and scholar of Judaic and Semitic languages. In World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force as a member of the intelligence unit at Bletchley Park, rising to the rank of Squadron Leader.