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Atkinson, William Walker
Amerikan. Schriftsteller (Themen Yoga, Self-healing)
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Mark Twain
Amerikan. Schriftsteller, auch Übersetzungen und Reisebeschreibungen; zunächst Drucker, Lotse, Soldat, Journalist
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Erich Kästner
Georg-Büchner-Preisträger 1957; Deutscher Filmpreis 1969: Filmband in Gold für langjähriges und hervorragendes Wirken im deutschen Film
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Heinrich Landesmann
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Micha Josef Berdyczewski
(1865–1921), writer and thinker. Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski (or Berdichevsky) was born in Międzyboż (Medzhibizh), Ukraine, in the cradle of Hasidism, to a family descended from generations of rabbis. He received a traditi…
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Abraham Bär Gottlober
(1811–1899), maskil, poet, translator, historian, and publicist. Born in Starokonstantinov, Volhynia guberniia, Avraham Ber Gottlober married the daughter of a Hasidic family at the age of 14. With the encouragement and …
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Hans Kohn
(1891–1971), Zionist activist, journalist, and scholar of modern nationalism. Hans Kohn was born in Prague to a bilingual (Czech and German) Jewish family; his parents came from the Czech regions outside the Bohemian cap…
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Ilja Grigorjewitsch Ehrenburg
(1891–1967), writer, journalist, and poet. Ilya Ehrenburg was born in Kiev. In 1895, his family was permitted to move to Moscow, where his father managed a brewery. Inspired by his older high school comrade Nikolai Bukha…
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Max Brod
(1884–1968), writer and critic. Born into an assimilated German-speaking family in multiethnic, late-Habsburg Prague, Max Brod went through an ideological transformation in his youth from German liberal and Jewish assimi…
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Noach Pryłucki
(Noyekh Prilutski; 1882–1941), Yiddish scholar, journalist, and political leader. Noah Pryłucki was born into an affluent merchant family in Berdichev, Ukraine, but spent most of his childhood in Kremenets. Under the gui…
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Richard Arnold Bermann
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Alexander Zederbaum
(1816–1893), editor and journalist. Aleksander Zederbaum was born in Zamość, Poland. After marrying in 1835, he moved to Lublin, and then in 1840 to Odessa, where he initially worked as a bookkeeper. He soon became a tai…
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Apolinary Hartglas
(1883–1953), Zionist, attorney, and Polish parliament deputy. Born in Biała Podlaska, Apolinary Hartglas came from an assimilated Jewish family. From 1892 to 1900, he attended a Russian high school and subsequently studi…
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Arrigo Boito
Schüler von Mazucato am Mailander Konservatorium
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Ben-Adir
(pseudonym of Avrom Rozin; 1878–1942), socialist leader. A leading figure first in the Jewish Socialist Workers Party (known as SERP, the party’s initials in Russian, or the Sejmists in Yiddish usage), later in the Unite…
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Charles Dickens
geb. in Landport (bei Portsmouth), gest. in Gad's Hill Place (bei Rochester)
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David Frischmann
(1859–1922), Hebrew and Yiddish writer and editor, literary critic, translator, and poet. David Frishman was born to a family of wealthy merchants in Zgierz, near Łódź. When he was two years old, his family moved to Łódź…
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Felix Weltsch
(1884–1964), philosopher and journalist. Born in Prague, Felix Weltsch obtained doctorates in both law and philosophy, and in his books concentrated on social philosophy and political ethics. He belonged to what his life…
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Goldstein, Moritz
Deutscher Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Journalist (Gerichtsreporter), Emigration 1933 Italien, 1939 England und Frankreich, ab 1947 USA; früher Hrsg. der Vossischen Zeitung, Berlin
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Harry Wilde
Dt. Journalist und Schriftsteller; Autor von Biographien und geschichtlichen Darstellungen; ehemaliger Sekretär von Theodor Plievier; Mitarbeiter bei "Berlin am Morgen", "Welt am Abend", "Rote Fahne"
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