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Jehuda Leib Gordon
(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
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Abraham Dob Lebensohn
(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
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Micah Joseph Lebensohn
(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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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
(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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Arno Nadel
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Chaim Grade
(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
(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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Judah Behak
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Alfes, Ben-Tsiyon
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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Alexander Berkman
Aufgewachsen in St. Petersburg, 1888 in die USA ausgewandert; 1919 deportiert in die Sowjetunion; um 1923 wurden seine Bücher in Berlin unter der Adresse "Alexander Berkman, Kopernikus Strasse 25, Berlin O 34 verschickt…
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Anôlîq, Binyāmîn
Holocaustüberlebender, lebt im Kibbutz Lochamej haGeta’ot, Mitglied im Vorstand von Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Leiter der Korczak-Organisation in Israel, Mitglied der internationalen Organisation in Warschau
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Dushman, Y.
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Miransḳi, Perets
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Shimshi, Tsevi
Zionist, Vater des späteren israelischen Ministerpräsidenten Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
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Solomon M. Schwarz
Autor von Büchern über die Geschichte der UdSSR und der Gewerkschaftsbewegung.
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Yashe Yeldin
Litauisch-sowjetischer jiddischer Schriftsteller
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Ajar, Émile
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Alfes, Ben-Tsiyon
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