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Aryeh Leb Ben-Asher Gintsburg
(1695/96–1785), better known as Sha’agat Aryeh (or by his French name, Lion Asser; his surname also spelled Günzberg), Talmudic scholar. Born in Lithuania to a father who was the rabbi of Minsk, Gintsburg was teaching in…
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Moshe Shmuel Shapiro
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Rachel Wischnitzer
Jüd. Publizistin u. Kunsthistorikerin russ. Herkunft, lebte 1921-1938 in Berlin, emigrierte nach Paris, ab 1940 nach New York; Verlag Rimon: 1922 wurde in der Stierstraße 17, Berlin-Friedenau der Verlag für jüdische K…
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Samuel Leib Zitron
Hebr.-jidd. Schriftsteller und Journalist
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Shapira, Ḥayim Naḥman
(1895–1943), historian of Hebrew literature, author, and translator. Ḥayim Naḥman Shapira was born in Minsk. His father was the chief rabbi of Kovno (Lith., Kaunas) and his mother came from a distinguished family of rabb…
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Aharon Zisling
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Alexander Eliasberg
Autographen- und Büchersammler; lebte seit 1902 in Deutschland
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Avraham Even-Shoshan
Hebrew educator, writer, and editor (Enc.Jud.)
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Berta Singerman
Argentinische Schauspielerin und Sängerin russischer Herkunft; Emigrierte als Kind nach Argentinien
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David Rappoport
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Esther Frumkin
(1880–1943), Bundist and Communist leader. Khaye Malke Lifshits (known variously as Ester; Ester Frumkin; Maria Iakovlevna Frumkina; and Ester Aronova) was the most prominent female leader of the Jewish Labor Bund in Rus…
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Even-Shoshan, Tsevi
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Ginsburg, Saul M.
Russian lawyer, historian and journalist; wrote and edited in Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew; left Russia for Paris in 1930 and settled in U.S.A. in 1933 (LoC)
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Leonid Borissowitsch Zypkin
(1926–1982), writer and physician. Leonid Tsypkin’s grandmother and other relatives were murdered in the Minsk ghetto during World War II, a fate he and his parents narrowly avoided when they managed to escape at the las…
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Lev Levanda
(1835–1888), journalist and fiction writer. Born in Minsk, Lev Levanda studied in a local Jewish school that, in response to governmental pressures, offered secular subjects; the students came from poor families who coul…
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Perlman, Shemuʾel
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Rafael Seligmann
Russisch-deutscher Publizist und Übersetzer ins Jiddische und Hebräische
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Yehudah Leib Levin
(1844–1925), Hebrew and Yiddish poet and essayist. Yehudah Leib Levin (also known by the literary acronym Yehalel) was born in Minsk; his grandfather was a Hasidic rabbi. In 1862, Levin married and moved to the town of P…
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Aaron Nissenson
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Abraham Liessin
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