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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Österreichischer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Lyriker, Librettist sowie Mitbegründer der Salzburger Festspiele
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David Cassel
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Max Weinreich
(1894–1969), Yiddish linguist, literary scholar, and public intellectual. Born in Kuldiga, Latvia (then in Russia; Ger., Goldingen), Max Weinreich grew up in a German-speaking home and first took an interest in Yiddish a…
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Moses Gaster
(1856–1939), scholar, rabbi, Zionist, folklorist. Moses Gaster was born in Bucharest to a renowned Jewish family; his grandfather Asriel Gaster had been a community leader and synagogue founder, and his father Abraham Em…
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Aharon Ben-Or
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Ignaz Bernstein
(1836–1909), folklorist, bibliophile, philanthropist, and compiler of the largest published collection of Yiddish proverbs. Born into a well-to-do maskilic family in Vinnytsa, Podolia (Ukraine), Ignatz Bernstein moved wi…
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Isaac Heinemann
Israelischer Religionsphilosoph; 1920-1938 Herausgeber der Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums; 1955 Preisträger des Israelpreises
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Moses Schorr
(1874–1941), historian, Semitic-language scholar, and rabbi. Born in Przemyśl, Galicia, Mojżesz (Mosheh) Schorr studied philosophy and history between 1893 and 1898 in Vienna at the University of Vienna and the Israeliti…
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Salman Reisen
(Reisen; 1887–1941), scholar of Yiddish language and literature, editor, journalist, and cultural activist. The brother of Avrom and Sore Reyzen, Zalmen Reyzen was born in Koidanov, Belorussia; he studied in a heder and …
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Saul Isaac Kaempf
Sohn des Schächters Aron K., Gymnasium in Berlin mit parallelem Talmudstudium bei E. Rosenstein, 1836 nach Posen an die Jeschiwa Akiba Egers, ordiniert vom Rt. in „Gyrcalwary“ (?), 1841 imm. Halle, Triennium bei Gesenius…
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Arthur Biram
Gründer und Leiter einer Schule in Haifa
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Cyrus Adler
Amerikan. jüd. Gemeindevorsitzender, Präs. d. American Jewish Committee
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Daniel Goldschmidt
Soldat im Ersten Weltkrieg. Anschließend Studium in Breslau und Berlin. Aufgrund der Nürnberger Gesetze zum Jahresende 1935 suspendiert und zwangspensioniert. 1936 Auswanderung nach Plaästina.
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Franz Oppenheimer
1909-1917 Privatdozent in Berlin; 1919-1929 Erste deutsche Soziologie-Professur an der Universität Frankfurt; Holocaust-Überlebender (emigrierte über Palästina, Shanghai und Japan in die USA)
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Heinrich Graetz
Dt.-schlesischer Historiker, Theologe, Philologe und Exeget; Schwerpunkt jüdische Geschichte und Bibelauslegung
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Hugo Bergmann
(1883–1975), philosopher and early Zionist. Hugo Bergmann (also Shemu’el Hugo Bergman) was a member of the German-speaking Jewish minority of Prague in the generation most closely associated with his classmate and friend…
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Ludwig Geiger
Philologe, Literaturhistoriker; 1914: Prof. in Berlin
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Marḳ, Yudl
(1897–1975), Yiddish linguist, educator, and political activist. Born in Palanga, Lithuania (in the Russian Empire), Yudl Mark was educated by private Jewish teachers and at local Russian schools. From 1915 to 1918, he s…
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Mateusz Mieses
(1885–1945), philologist and journalist. Born in Przemyśl, Galicia, to a maskil family, Matthias Mieses had studied 10 languages by the age of 18. He published a Hebrew poem in the weekly Ha-Magid at 15, followed by hund…
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Muneles, Otto
(1894–1967), Hebraist and historian. Otto Muneles was descended from an old Jewish family in Prague, records of which date to the sixteenth century; one of his ancestors was Avraham Muneles, who wrote an index to the Shu…
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