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Janusz Korczak
Person · 1878–1942 · 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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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Person · 1907–1972 · Philosoph, Rabbi, Theologe · Warschau · 7 sources
Amerikan.-jüdischer Theologe und Philosoph poln. Herkunft, 1927-1933 Studium in Deutschland, 1938-1939 Philosophiedozent in Polen, 1939 Emigration nach Großbritannien, 1940 in die USA, 1945 amerikan. Staatsbürger; Prof…
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Adam Czerniaków
Person · 1880–1942 · 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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Adolf Berman
Person · 1906–1978-03-04 · Warschau · 7 sources
(1906–1978), psychologist; left-wing Zionist activist, and a leader of the Warsaw ghetto underground. Adolf Berman (who used the code names Adam, Borowski, and Ludwik) studied psychology and philosophy at Warsaw Universi…
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Alexander Freiman
Person · 1879–1968 · Warschau · 7 sources
ab 1919 Prof. für iran. Philologie an der Univ. Leningrad
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Anita Shapira
Person · 1940– · Historikerin, historian · Warschau · 7 sources
emigrierte 1947 nach Israel; Institute of Zionist Research; assoc. prof., Jewish Hist. Dept., Univ. of Tel Aviv
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Arnstein, Mark
Person · 1878–1943 · 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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Benzion Netanjahu
Person · 1910–2012 · Historiker, Judaic scholar, historian · Warschau · 7 sources
Gelehrter der jüdischen Geschichte und Aktivist der revisionistischen zionistischen Bewegung; Herausgeber der Hebräischen Enzyklopädie
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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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Chemjo Vinaver
Person · 1900–1973 · Warschau · 7 sources
Israel. Musikwissenschaftler, Dirigent u. Komponist poln. Herkunft
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Gabriel Moked
Person · 1933-08-27–2026-05-29 · Warschau · 7 sources
Literaturwissenschaftler und Professor für Philosophie, Mitbegründer der Zeitschrift Akhshav, emeritierter Professer der Ben-Gurion Universität
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Israel Gutman
Person · 1923–2013 · Historian, Historiker, Hochschullehrer · Warschau · 7 sources
Israelischer Historiker, Holocaustopfer, Mitarbeiter für Yad Vashem und an der Hebräischen Universität
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Jitzchak Gruenbaum
Person · 1879–1970 · 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 · 1895–1983 · Rabbi · Warschau · 7 sources
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Natan Nir
Person · 1935–2015-01-18 · Offizier · Warschau · 7 sources
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Nathan Alterman
Person · 1910–1970 · Schriftsteller, writer · Warschau · 7 sources
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Nathan Rapoport
Person · 1911–1987 · Bildhauer, Sculptor, artist · Warschau · 7 sources
1948 Erschaffer des Warschauer Ghetto-Ehrenmals; 1950 Emigration nach Paris und Israel, ab 1959 in den USA, 1965 eingebürgert
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Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
Person · 1847–1905 · Rabbiner, Rabbis · Warschau · 7 sources
Poln. Rabbiner; chassidischer Zaddik; Gelehrter
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Aaron Walden
Person · 1838-02-03–1912-07-08 · writer · Warschau · 6 sources
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Aleksander Kraushar
Person · 1843–1931 · 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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