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Frankel, Zacharias
Geb. 30. Sept. 1801 in Prag,Gest. 13. Feb. 1875 in BreslauÄltester Sohn des Koppelmann F., Abkömmling der bedeutenden Rabbinerfamilien Fränkel aus Wien und Spiro aus Prag, und der Esther Fischels, einer Tochter des Lei…
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Hans Kohn
(1891–1971), Zionist activist, journalist, and scholar of modern nationalism. Hans Kohn was born in Prague to a bilingual (Czech and German) Jewish family; his parents came from the Czech regions outside the Bohemian cap…
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Jiří Langer
(1894–1943), Hebrew and Czech writer. Jiří (Mordekhai Georgo) Langer was born in Prague to an assimilated merchant family. His eldest brother was the well-known Czech writer and playwright František Langer (1888–1965). L…
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Werfel, Franz
(1890–1945), writer. Son of a prosperous Jewish glove manufacturer, Franz Werfel was brought up in Prague, where he was friendly with Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Willy Haas, and other members of the Prague Circle. He initiall…
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Franz Kafka
(1883–1924), writer. A Jewish writer who was born and lived most of his life in Prague, Franz Kafka was one of the most important contributors to European modernist prose. All of his surviving fiction was composed in Ger…
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Max Brod
(1884–1968), writer and critic. Born into an assimilated German-speaking family in multiethnic, late-Habsburg Prague, Max Brod went through an ideological transformation in his youth from German liberal and Jewish assimi…
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Felix Weltsch
(1884–1964), philosopher and journalist. Born in Prague, Felix Weltsch obtained doctorates in both law and philosophy, and in his books concentrated on social philosophy and political ethics. He belonged to what his life…
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Weltsch, Robert
(1891–1984), Zionist activist, journalist, and essayist. Robert Weltsch was born in Prague to one of the oldest and most respected Jewish families in the city. His father, attorney Theodore Weltsch, was active in local J…
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Bergman, Shemuʾel Hugo
(1883–1975), philosopher and early Zionist. Hugo Bergmann (also Shemu’el Hugo Bergman) was a member of the German-speaking Jewish minority of Prague in the generation most closely associated with his classmate and friend…
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Egon Erwin Kisch
(1885–1948), journalist, writer, and political activist. The twentieth-century image of the reporter as adventurer-hero is deeply indebted to the self-fashioning of the “roving reporter,” as Kisch called himself in the t…
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Guido Kisch
(1889–1985), lawyer and historian. Guido Kisch (son of Rabbi Alexander Kisch and an older brother to noted medical scholar Bruno Kisch) was born in Prague; he studied law at the German university there and received his h…
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Hans Krása
Tschechoslowakischer Komponist deutscher Sprache, in Auschwitz ermordert
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Walter Trier
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Willy Haas
(1891–1973), critic and editor. The son of a German-speaking Jewish lawyer in Prague, Willy Haas became friendly with Franz Kafka, Max Brod, and Franz Werfel while still at school and was a central member of the literary…
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Alexander Kisch
(1848–1917), rabbi, educator, and publicist. Alexander Kisch came from an established family in Prague, where his father, Joseph Kisch, was director of the first modern private school in the city’s Jewish quarter. Beginn…
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Alfred Klaar
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Bertha von Suttner
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Deutsch, Ernst
Auszeichnung: Deutscher Filmpreis 1964: Filmband in Gold für langjähriges und hervorragendes Wirken im deutschen Film
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Emil Orlík
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