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Majer Samuel Bałaban
(1877–1942), historian and educator. Majer Bałaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and the first to synthesize both Polish archival sources and Jewish communal records and rabbinic resp…
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Bodeḳ, Menaḥem Mendel
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Osias Thon
(1870–1936), rabbi, sociologist, and political leader. Ozjasz (Yehoshu‘a) Thon was one of the main initiators and theoreticians of the Zionist movement in Poland. Born in Lwów, he received a traditional education. Thon w…
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Salomon Buber
(1827–1906), scholar of rabbinic literature and public activist in Lwów. Salomon (Shelomoh) Buber’s family provided him with a traditional education. His father’s rich and varied library of Talmudic and rabbinic texts en…
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Alfred Nossig
(1864–1943), writer, sculptor, musician, and public activist. Alfred Nossig came from a wealthy family in Lemberg (Lwów), where his father served as secretary of the Jewish community and was an activist for Jewish rights…
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Joseph Kohen-Zedek
(1827–1903), publisher, journalist, and Orthodox maskil. Yosef Kohen-Tsedek (last name also rendered Kohen-Zedek) was born in Lwów. While primarily engaged in rabbinic scholarship, he also taught himself languages and se…
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Margaliyot, Reʾuven
Rabbiner, Verleger, Buchhändler, Bibliothekar
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Ettinger, Mordecai Zeʾev ben Isaac Aaron Segal
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Jacob Itzhak Niemirower
(1872–1939), rabbi and philosopher of Judaism. Born in Lemberg (Lwów), Iacob Isac (Ya‘akov Yitsḥak) Niemirower received a traditional Jewish education. His parents moved to Iaşi, Romania, when he was a child. Initially i…
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Josef Isaak Kobak
Sohn des Moses Elieser K., Besuch des Staatsgymnasiums in Lemberg und parallele Talmudstudien am Bet-Midrasch gemeinsam mit dem nachmaligen Dajan Uri Wolf Salat, um 1856 Studium an der Franzensuniversität in Lemberg (er …
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Karl Radek
(1885–1939), international revolutionary activist and publicist. Born in Lwów, Karl Radek (originally surnamed Sobel’son) grew up in Tarnów, in his mother’s family, where the German culture was dominant. In gymnasium he …
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Dozent für Geschichte an der Universität Graz; Gründer der kosmopolitischen internationalen Revue "Auf der Höhe" in Leipzig
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Moritz Rappaport
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Parandowski, Jan
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Paul Muni
US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Oscarpreisträger. Tony-Award-Preisträger.
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Siegfried Bernfeld
Jüdischer Pädagoge und Psychoanalytiker, geboren in Österreich-Ungarn in der heutigen Ukraine; Mitbegründer der psychoanalytischen Pädagogik und der modernen Theorie des Jugendalters; Sozialist; 1934 Exil über Fran…
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Tsevi Ḳarl
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שור, ברוך
(1823–1904), cantor and composer. Barukh Schorr was born in Lemberg. As a boy he reportedly traveled to Odessa with the famed cantor Betsal’el Shulsinger (Tsalel Odesser; d. ca. 1873) to become part of his choir, eventua…
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Adolf Henryk Silberschein
Zionist; hatte führende Parteifunktionen in Hitʾaḥadud und ʾIḥud olami inne; Gründer v. RELICO (Relief Committee for Jewish War Victims) 1939
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Alfred Redl
Nachrichtendienst-Leiter des Generalstabs für Österreich-Ungarn, Spion für das zaristische Russland; Tod durch Suizid
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