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Jehuda Leib Gordon
Person · 1830–1892 · Schriftsteller, poet · Wilna · 10 sources
(1831–1892), the most important Hebrew poet of the nineteenth century; leading figure of the Russian Haskalah movement. Yehudah Leib Gordon was born in Vilna in 1831 and started writing Hebrew poetry at a young age. He s…
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Romain Gary
Person · 1914–1980 · Authors · Wilna · 10 sources
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Abraham Dob Lebensohn
Person · 1789–1878 · poet · Wilna · 9 sources
(1794–1878), maskil, biblical commentator, poet, and playwright. Born in Vilna, Avraham Dov Lebensohn (known by the pseudonym Adam ha-Kohen [also rendered Hakohen]) married a girl from Mikhailishok in northern Belorussia…
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Hirsch Glik
Person · 1922–1944 · poet · Wilna · 9 sources
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Aaron Samuel Kaidanover
Person · 1614–1676 · Rabbi · Wilna · 8 sources
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Mark Antokolski
Person · 1843–1902 · Sculptor · Wilna · 8 sources
(1843–1902), sculptor. Born near Vilna, the youngest son in a family of a Jewish tavernkeeper, Mark Antokol’skii went on to distinguish himself as the founder of the realist school in Russian sculpture and as the Russian…
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Micah Joseph Lebensohn
Person · 1828-02-22–1852-02-17 · poet · Wilna · 8 sources
(1828–1852), Hebrew poet and translator. Mikhah Yosef Lebensohn (Mikhal), son of Avraham Dov Lebensohn (Adam ha-Kohen), was born in Vilna. In addition to receiving a traditional Jewish education, he was encouraged by his…
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Sabbatai ben Meir ha-Kohen
Person · 1621–1662 · Rabbiner · Wilna · 8 sources
(ca. 1621–ca. 1662), author of Sifte Kohen (1646–1647); an important and influential halakhic authority known as Shakh. Shabetai was born in Amstibovo, Lithuania, to a well-known rabbinical family. His father and grandfa…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
Person · 1818–1891 · scholar · Wilna · 8 sources
(1818–1890), a leading figure of the Russian Haskalah. Shemu’el Yosef Fuenn (or Fünn) taught at the Vilna Rabbinical Seminary, was founder and editor of the journal Ha-Karmel, and was one of the leaders of the Ḥibat Tsiy…
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Zwi Hirsch Koidanower
Person · 1650–1712 · Philosoph, Rabbiner · Wilna · 8 sources
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Alexander Bogen
Person · 1916–2010 · Künstler, Painters, Sculptors · Wilna · 7 sources
Israel. Maler, der 1951 von Estland nach Israel kam
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Arno Nadel
Person · 1878–1943 · Dirigent, Illustrator, Komponist · Wilna · 7 sources
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Chaim Grade
Person · 1910–1982 · Wilna · 7 sources
(1910–1982), Yiddish poet and novelist. Chaim Grade ranks among the most important Yiddish writers of the post-Holocaust period. His unsentimental depictions of rabbinic high culture and life on the Jewish streets of Vil…
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Eisik Meir Dick
Person · 1807–1893-01-24 · Wilna · 7 sources
(1807/14?–1893), the first professional and best-selling Yiddish author. Born in Vilna, Ayzik Meyer Dik (generally known by his pseudonym Amad) received a traditional Jewish education and married young, settling in the L…
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Eliakum Zunser
Person · 1836–1913 · Wilna · 7 sources
(1836–1913), Yiddish folk poet and songwriter. Known as Lyokemke Badkhn (Elyokem the Wedding Entertainer) and the “people’s bard,” Elyokem Tsunzer was born in Vilna (then Russia)—in 1841 rather than 1836, according to hi…
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Joshua Höschel ben Joseph
Person · 1578–1648 · Rabbi · Wilna · 7 sources
Wirkte als Rabbiner in Horodna, Tiktin, Przemysl und ab 1639 in Lemberg; 1640 wurde er Nachfolger des Oberrabbiners in Krakau; Verfasser von Rechtsgutachten und eines Talmudkommentars
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Judah Behak
Person · 1820–1900 · Wilna · 7 sources
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Judah Hurwitz
Person · 1734–1797 · Arzt · Wilna · 7 sources
Hebr. Schriftsteller der Haskalah, geb. in Wilna
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A. Litwak
Person · 1874–1932 · Wilna · 6 sources
(1874–1932), pseudonym of Khayim Yankl Helfand, socialist, Yiddish writer, translator, and editor. Helfand was born in Vilna to a strictly observant Jewish family. He went to heder until the age of 12 and subsequently st…
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Alfes, Ben-Tsiyon
Person · 1850–1940 · writer · Wilna · 6 sources
1924 nach Palästina eingewandert; schrieb auf Jiddisch und Hebräisch, Autor moralistischer Werke, Übers. hebr. Literatur ins Jidd., bekannt für Maʿaśeh Alfes (fromme Jugendliteratur)
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