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Janusz Korczak
Person · 1878-07-22–1942-08-05 · Kinderarzt, Pädagoge, Schriftsteller · Warschau · 8 sources
(1878/79–1942), physician, educator, and writer. Janusz Korczak (originally Henryk Goldszmit) was born in Warsaw to a secular family strongly acculturated into Polish culture and imbued with a tradition of social activis…
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Adam Czerniaków
Person · 1880-11-30–1942-07-23 · Chemiker, Ingenieur, Politiker · Warschau · 7 sources
(1880–1942), Jewish communal leader, president of the Warsaw Judenrat. Born in Warsaw, Adam Czerniaków received engineering degrees from polytechnic institutes in Warsaw and Dresden. In interwar Poland, he helped lead th…
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Alexander Freiman
Person · 1879-08-22–1968-01-19 · Iranist, Linguist, Orientalist · Warschau · 7 sources
ab 1919 Prof. für iran. Philologie an der Univ. Leningrad
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Arnstein, Mark
Person · 1880-01-02–1943 · Dramatiker, Dramaturg, Regisseur · Warschau · 7 sources
(ca. 1879–1943), Yiddish and Polish playwright and theater director. Mark Arnshteyn (Arnsztejn) was born in Warsaw. In the Polish world, he used the pseudonym Andrzej Marek. His extended family included a Yiddish actress…
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Bolesław Leśmian
Person · 1877-01-22–1937-11-05 · Lyriker, Schriftsteller, poet · Warschau · 7 sources
(1877–1937), poet and essayist. The great-grandson of Antoni Eisenbaum, director of the Warsaw Rabbinical School, Leśmian (whose last name originally was Lesman) was baptized in 1887. He spent his youth in Ukraine where,…
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Jitzchak Gruenbaum
Person · 1879–1970 · Politiker · Warschau · 7 sources
(1879–1970), Polish Jewish political leader and journalist. Yitsḥak Grünbaum was born in Warsaw, received a traditional Jewish education, and graduated from a high school in Płońsk. He became an active Zionist during his…
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Menachem Mendel Kasher
Person · 1895-03-07–1983-11-03 · Rabbi, Rabbiner · Warschau · 7 sources
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Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
Person · 1847–1905 · Gelehrter, Rabbiner, Rabbis · Warschau · 7 sources
Poln. Rabbiner; chassidischer Zaddik; Gelehrter
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Aaron Walden
Person · 1835–1912 · Autor, Editor, Talmudist · Warschau · 6 sources
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Aleksander Kraushar
Person · 1843-01-17–1931-12-11 · Historiker, Jurist, Publizist · Warschau · 6 sources
(1843–1931), historian, poet, and translator. Born in Warsaw, Aleksander Kraushar came from a moderately prosperous commercial family—his father, Herman, was a senior broker in the Warsaw stock exchange. Kraushar attende…
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Antoni Słonimski
Person · 1895-11-15–1976-07-04 · Lyriker, Poets, Polish, Schriftsteller · Warschau · 6 sources
(1895–1976), poet, writer, playwright, publicist, and theater and film critic. Antoni Słonimski was the grandson of Ḥayim Zelig Słonimski, a prominent Warsaw maskil, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and publisher of …
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Berliner, Hennoch
Person · 1883–1925 · Mathematiker · Warschau · 6 sources
Studium der Mathematik an den Universitäten Breslau, Gießen, Tübingen und Bern. - Habilitation 1913 in Bern. - Privatdozent an der Universität Bern 1912-1922
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Bialer, Yehudah Leb
Person · 1896-03-17–1977-04-26 · Judaist, Publizist · Warschau · 6 sources
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Dickstein, Samuel
Person · 1851-05-12–1939-09-28 · Historiker, Hochschullehrer, Mathematiker · Warschau · 6 sources
(1851–1939), mathematician, pedagogue, and historian of science. One of the leading intellectuals in Congress Poland, Samuel Dickstein was born in Warsaw and was an activist in the assimilationist movement. From 1884 to …
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Efraim Kaganowski
Person · 1893–1958-10-17 · Schriftsteller · Warschau · 6 sources
(1893–1958), author and storyteller. Froyim Kaganovski was born in Warsaw, but few facts about his background and early years are available. It is known that he displayed an aptitude for painting and studied at an art sc…
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Halina Górska
Person · 1898-05-04–1942-06-04 · Schriftstellerin, writer · Warschau · 6 sources
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Izydor Lotto
Person · 1840-12-23–1927-07-13 · Geiger, Komponist · Warschau · 6 sources
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Julian Joel Obermann
Person · 1888–1956 · Hochschullehrer, Semitist · Warschau · 6 sources
Polnischer, u.a. in den USA wirkender Semitist; studierte Semitistik an der Universität Wien und promovierte dort 1915 mit der Dissertation "Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Darstellung der arabischen Philosophie"; lehrt…
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Justman, Moshe Bunem
Person · 1889–1942 · Journalist, Schriftsteller · Warschau · 6 sources
(1889–1942), journalist, wit, and public affairs writer. Born in Warsaw to a Hasidic family, Moyshe Bunem Yustman (known also as Ba‘al Ye’ush [master of despair]) identified with Orthodox Jewry all his life. He began wri…
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Leo Belmont
Person · 1865–1941 · Esperantist, Journalist, Literaturkritiker · Warschau · 6 sources
(1865–1941), writer, poet, and translator. Leo Belmont (Leopold Blumental) graduated from the University of Warsaw and practiced law in Saint Petersburg and Warsaw. A well-known publicist before World War I, he was haras…
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