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Janusz Korczak
(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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Bolesław Leśmian
(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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Nathan Alterman
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Aleksander Kraushar
(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
(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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Dan Tsalka
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Efraim Kaganowski
(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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Henryk Grynberg
Poln.-jüd. Journalist; Schauspieler; Dichter; Dramatiker; seit 1967 in den USA
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Israel Zamir
Israel. Journalist u. Schriftsteller, Sohn v. I. B. Singer
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Jan Kott
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Justman, Moshe Bunem
(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
(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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Matityahu Shoham
(Poliakewicz; 1893–1937), Hebrew poet and playwright. Matityahu Shoham was born to an affluent family in Warsaw. As a student, he read the classics of Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, and German literature. In 1915, he …
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Moshe Shklar
Jidd. Schriftsteller, aus Polen in die USA emigriert
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Ossip Emiljewitsch Mandelstam
(1891–1938), Russian poet, prose writer, and literary essayist. Most of Osip Mandel’shtam’s new writings went unpublished in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era (1929–1953) and were almost unknown to generations of Ru…
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Uri Orlev
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A. Almi
Jiddischer Dichter, geboren in Polen, wanderte 1912 in die USA aus, publizierte in Jiddisch, Hebräisch und Englisch
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Adam Ważyk
(Ajzyk Wagman; 1905–1982), poet, prose and essay writer, and translator. The brother of Saul Wagman, a poet and publicist associated with the Zionist journal Nasz Przegląd, and Leon Trystam, an actor, film critic, and sc…
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Andrzej Stasiuk
gründete 1996 mit seiner Ehefrau den Verlag „Czarne" ; wohnt in den Niederen Beskiden (Polnischer Teil)
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Andrzej Szczypiorski
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