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Heinrich Landesmann
Person · 1821-08-09–1902-12-02 · Dramatiker, Journalist, Schriftsteller · Nikolsburg · 10 sources
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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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Abraham Bär Gottlober
Person · 1810-12-20–1899-04-12 · Gelehrter, Journalist, Satiriker · Starokonstantinov · 9 sources
(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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Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak
Person · 1890-02-10–1960-05-30 · Authors, Russian, Komponist, Librettist · Moskau · 9 sources
(1890–1960), poet, prose writer, and translator. Boris Pasternak was raised in a highly cultured Moscow family. His mother Rozaliia (née Kaufman) was a pianist; his father, Leonid Osipovich, was a prominent artist and ar…
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Elieser Steinbarg
Person · 1880–1932 · Schriftsteller, poet · Lipkany · 9 sources
(1880–1932), Yiddish writer and educator. Born in Lipkany, Bessarabia, Eliezer Shteynbarg (originally Shteynberg) received a traditional Jewish education but independently mastered German and Russian classics. Like his c…
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Franz Werfel
Person · 1890-09-10–1945-08-26 · Librettist, Lyriker, Musiker · Prag · 9 sources
(1890–1945), writer. Son of a prosperous Jewish glove manufacturer, Franz Werfel was brought up in Prague, where he was friendly with Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Willy Haas, and other members of the Prague Circle. He initiall…
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Ilja Grigorjewitsch Ehrenburg
Person · 1891-01-27–1967-08-31 · Authors, Russian, Drehbuchautor, Journalist · Kiew · 9 sources
(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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Itzhak Katzenelson
Person · 1886–1944 · poet · Korelichi · 9 sources
(1885–1944), Hebrew and Yiddish poet. Born in Karelitz, near Minsk, Belorussia, Yitsḥak Katzenelson acquired his Hebrew education from his father, Ya‘akov Binyamin Katzenelson, a maskilic teacher and writer. From 1896, K…
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Jacob Fichman
Person · 1881–1958 · Kritiker, Pädagoge, Schriftsteller · Bălţi · 9 sources
(1881–1958), Hebrew poet, critic, and editor. Born in Beltsy (Bălți), Bessarabia, Ya‘akov Fichmann received a traditional and secular education, and was well versed in Hebrew maskilic writing as well as Yiddish, Russian,…
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August Strindberg
Person · 1849-01-22–1912-05-14 · Künstler, Librettist, Maler · Stockholm · 8 sources
Schwedischer Schriftsteller und Künstler
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Charlotte Brontë
Person · 1816-04-21–1855-03-31 · Gouvernante, Lehrerin, Schriftstellerin · Thornton · 8 sources
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Lasker-Schüler, Else
Person · 1869-02-11–1945-01-22 · Dramatikerin, Künstlerin, Künstlerin · Elberfeld · 8 sources
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Micah Joseph Lebensohn
Person · 1828-02-22–1852-02-17 · Schriftsteller, poet, Übersetzer · 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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Miriam Singer
Person · 1898–1989 · Journalist, Kinderbuchautorin, Poet · Prag · 8 sources
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Peretz Markish
Person · 1895-12-07–1952-08-12 · Lyriker, Schriftsteller, poet · Polonne (Oblast Chmelnizkij) · 8 sources
(1895–1952), Yiddish poet, prose writer, playwright, and essayist. Perets Markish was born to impoverished parents in Polonnoye, a town in Volhynia. He received a heder education and left home at a young age, working at …
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Sachs, Nelly
Person · 1891-12-10–1970-05-12 · Dramatists, Librettistin, Lyrikerin · Berlin · 8 sources
Deutsch-schwedische Dichterin und Dramatikerin, Nobelpreis für Literatur (1966)
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Salomon Mandelkern
Person · 1846–1902-03-24 · Rabbi, Schriftsteller, poet · Mlyniv · 8 sources
(1846–1902), Hebrew poet, author of a major biblical concordance. Born in Mlynów, Volhynia, Shelomoh Mandelkern received a broad traditional education. At the age of 16 he was sent to Dubno to continue his studies, and f…
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André Spire
Person · 1868–1966 · Lyriker, Schriftsteller, Zionist · 7 sources
New York (Wirkungsort); Franz. Schriftsteller
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Benjamin Fondane
Person · 1898-11-14–1944-10-02 · Philosoph, Schriftsteller, poet · Iaşi · 7 sources
(1898–1944), poet and philosopher. Born in Iaşi, Romania, Beniamin Fundoianu was the son of Isac Wechsler, a small tradesman from Herța (in Bucovina), and of Adela, sister of Jewish scholars Elias, Wilhelm, and Moses Sch…
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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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