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1. Samuil Agurskii

   Person · 1884–1947 · Historians, Historiker, Publizist · Grodno · 8 sources

   (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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2. Aryeh Leib Epstein

   Person · 1708–1775 · Rabbi, Rabbiner · Grodno · 7 sources

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3. Léon Bakst

   Person · 1866-05-10–1924-12-28 · Bühnenbildner, Kostümbildner, Künstler · Grodno · 7 sources

   (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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4. Abraham Shalom Friedberg

   Person · 1838–1902 · Grodno · 6 sources

   (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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5. Akiva Aryeh Weiss

   Person · 1868–1947 · Grodno · 6 sources

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6. Benjamin Slonik

   Person · 1550–1619 · Rabbiner, Talmudist · Grodno · 6 sources

   (ca. 1550–ca. 1619), Polish rabbi, probably born in Grodno or nearby Tykocin, possibly in the territory disputed by both communities, for he was called Binyamin Horodno (Grodno) on the title page of the 1606 Italian tran…

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7. Constantin Shapiro

   Person · 1841–1900 · Fotograf, Schriftsteller · Grodno · 6 sources

   (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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8. Ilja Jakowlewitsch Ginzburg

   Person · 1859–1939 · Bildhauer · Grodno · 6 sources

   (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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9. Iosif Rabin

   Person · 1900–1987 · Schriftsteller · Grodno · 6 sources

   (1900–1987), Yiddish writer. Born in Grodno, Yoysef Rabin moved to Vilna in 1915 and studied at an evening school. As the leader of the underground Vilna Komsomol organization, he fled in 1920 to Moscow, where he worked …

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10. Isaac Eisik Wildmann

    Person · 1789–1853 · Rabbiner · Grodno · 6 sources

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11. Lejb Najdus

    Person · 1890-10-06–1918-12-23 · Schriftsteller · Grodno · 6 sources

    (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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12. Lew Borissowitsch Jaffe

    Person · 1876-05-24–1948-03-11 · Journalist, Publizist, Schriftsteller · Grodno · 6 sources

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13. Shimon Finkel

    Person · 1905-12-08–1999-10-05 · Schauspieler · Grodno · 6 sources

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14. Abram Menes

    Person · 1897–1969 · Historiker · Grodno · 5 sources

    Jüdischer Historiker, geb. in Polen, siedelte nach Paris und später in die USA um.

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15. Alexander Manor

    Person · 1910-10-29–2003-12-22 · Grodno · 5 sources

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16. Alexander Pomerantz

    Person · 1901–1965 · Grodno · 5 sources

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17. Chasia Bornstein-Bielicka

    Person · 1921–2012 · Erzieherin, Lehrerin, Widerstandskämpferin · Grodno · 5 sources

    Poln.-jüd. Widerstandskämpferin; lebt als Erzieherin in einem Kibbuz in Israel

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18. Felix Zandman

    Person · 1927-05-07–2011-06-04 · Engineers, Unternehmer · Grodno · 5 sources

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19. Gedaliah Bublick

    Person · 1875–1948 · Journalist, Zionist · Grodno · 5 sources

    Editor-in-chief of the New York Orthodox Yiddish newspaper "Yiddishe Tageblatt"

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20. Gershoni, Yehudah

    Person · 1908–2000 · Rabbiner · Grodno · 5 sources

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