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Samuil Agurskii
(1884–1947), Communist Party figure and historian. Born in Grodno, where he had a traditional elementary education, Samuil (also Shmuel or Sam) Agurskii joined the Bund during the revolution of 1905. From 1906 to May 191…
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Léon Bakst
(1866–1924), Russian artist. Of the many artists of the Russian Silver Age, Léon Bakst (Lev Samoilovich Rozenberg) deserves the highest acclaim for his achievements in studio painting and the applied arts. He was especia…
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Abraham Shalom Friedberg
(1838–1902), Hebrew author and translator. Also known as Har Shalom (or by the acronym Hash), Avraham Shalom Friedberg was born in Grodno, Lithuania. After he turned 13, he chose to study watchmaking, while continuing hi…
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Akiva Aryeh Weiss
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Constantin Shapiro
(1839–1900), Hebrew poet. Konstantin Abba Shapiro was born in Grodno and was raised in a strict and religious home in which his authoritarian father tried to divert him from an interest in secular literature. To discoura…
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Ilja Jakowlewitsch Ginzburg
(1859–1939), sculptor. A child prodigy, Gintsburg was born in Grodno; he became a student of Mark Antokol’skii, who took him to Saint Petersburg in 1870. Gintsburg entered the Russian Academy in 1878 and received the off…
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Lejb Najdus
(1890–1918), Yiddish poet. Leyb Naydus was born in Grodno (Hrodna) to a wealthy, somewhat maskilic family. Most of his childhood was spent on a spacious estate near his birthplace, where he had private tutors for Jewish …
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Lew Borissowitsch Jaffe
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Abram Menes
Jüdischer Historiker, geb. in Polen, siedelte nach Paris und später in die USA um.
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Gedaliah Bublick
Editor-in-chief of the New York Orthodox Yiddish newspaper "Yiddishe Tageblatt"
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Gluecksohn, Moses Josef
GLUECKSOHN (Glickson), MOSHE (1878–1939), Hebrew journalist and Zionist leader. Born in Cholynka, near Grodno, Gluecksohn began his Zionist activity in Western Europe among Jewish students. He was a delegate to the Sixth…
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Hailprin, Mena.hem Menkhin
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Max Einhorn
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Moses Meir Ostrinski
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Ossip Lubitch
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Yehoshua Leib Diskin
Rabbiner, u.a. Jerusalem und Weißrußland
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Bezalel Yaffe
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Braude Arye Leib
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Fega Frisch
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Jacob Mordecai Löwinsohn
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