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Mark Twain
Person · 1835-11-30–1910-04-21 · Drucker, Journalist, Lecturer · Florida, Mo. · 16 sources
Amerikan. Schriftsteller, auch Übersetzungen und Reisebeschreibungen; zunächst Drucker, Lotse, Soldat, Journalist
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Jiří Langer
Person · 1894–1943 · Psychologe, Schriftsteller, writer · Prag · 11 sources
(1894–1943), Hebrew and Czech writer. Jiří (Mordekhai Georgo) Langer was born in Prague to an assimilated merchant family. His eldest brother was the well-known Czech writer and playwright František Langer (1888–1965). L…
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Chaim Nachman Bialik
Person · 1873-01-09–1934-07-04 · Drehbuchautor, Schriftsteller, writer · Volynsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine) · 10 sources
(1873–1934), foremost modern Hebrew poet. Ḥayim Naḥman Bialik was born in the village of Radi, near the city of Zhitomir in Ukraine. After his father’s timber business failed, the family moved to Zhitomir when Bialik was…
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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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David Kaufmann
Person · 1852-06-07–1899-07-06 · Hebraist, Historiker, Rabbiner · Kojetín · 9 sources
(1852–1899), scholar and manuscript collector. Born in Kojetín (Ger., Kojetein) in the Habsburg province of Moravia, one of five children of a rural leaseholder, David Kaufmann attended the town’s Jewish elementary schoo…
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Samuel Agnon
Person · 1888-07-17–1970-02-17 · Schriftsteller, writer · Butschatsch · 9 sources
(1888–1970), Hebrew writer; Nobel laureate in literature. Shemu’el Yosef Agnon (formerly Czaczkes) was born in Buczacz, a small town in eastern Galicia, then under Austro-Hungarian rule. He left his hometown permanently …
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Abraham Mapu
Person · 1808–1867 · Schriftsteller, Writer, writer · Vilijampolė (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 8 sources
(1808–1867), key figure in the Russian Haskalah movement, and the first Hebrew novelist. Avraham Mapu was born in Slobodka (near Kovno) to a Misnaged family of Torah scholars, and the only formal schooling he received wa…
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Hirsch Edelmann
Person · 1805–1858 · Schriftsteller, writer · Swislocz · 8 sources
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Isaak Emmanuilowitsch Babel
Person · 1894-07-13–1941-03-17 · Kriegsberichterstatter, Schriftsteller, writer · Odessa · 8 sources
(Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel’; 1894–1940), Soviet Jewish short-story writer and playwright. Isaac Babel was born in Odessa and brought up in the Russified middle-class family of a dealer in agricultural machinery. Odessa w…
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Janusz Korczak
Person · 1878-07-22–1942-08-05 · Kinderarzt, Pädagoge, Pädagoge · Warschau · 8 sources
(1878/79–1942), physician, educator, and writer. Janusz Korczak (originally Henryk Goldszmit) was born in Warsaw to a secular family strongly acculturated into Polish culture and imbued with a tradition of social activis…
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Mark Aldanov
Person · 1886-11-07–1957-02-25 · Chemiker, Historiker, Schriftsteller · Kiew · 8 sources
Wirkl. Name von M.A. Aldanov ist M.A. Landau
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Miriam Singer
Person · 1898–1989 · Journalist, Kinderbuchautorin, Poet · Prag · 8 sources
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Reuben Brainin
Person · 1862-03-16–1939-11-30 · Publizist, Schriftsteller, writer · Ljadi · 8 sources
(1862–1939), Hebrew critic, biographer, short-story writer, and feuilletonist. Born in Liady, Mohilev province, Re’uven Brainin was part of a learned Jewish family, and he first intensely followed the route of traditiona…
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Salomon Rubin
Person · 1823–1910 · Philosoph, Schriftsteller, Übersetzer · Dolyna · 8 sources
Jüdischer Gelehrter und Autor der Haskala sowie Übersetzer aus dem Hebräischen; wirkte zunächst als Lehrer und Geschäftsmann in Galizien, Rumänien und Russland; seit 1865 in Wien, Mitbegründer der Zeitschrift "Has…
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Theodor Herzl
Person · 1860-05-02–1904-07-02 · Dramatiker, Journalist, Kritiker · Pest (Stadt) · 8 sources
Seine Mutter war Jeanette (Johanna Nannette) Herzl (geb. Diamant 1836-1911), sein Vater Jakob Herzl (1835-1902), Direktor der Hungariabank.
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Uri Nissan Gnessin
Person · 1879–1913 · writer · Starodub · 8 sources
(1879–1913), Hebrew and Yiddish writer and translator. Born in Starodub, Ukraine, Uri Gnessin belonged to a generation of Hebrew writers who disagreed with the criticism of traditional Judaism by Haskalah writers. When G…
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Abraham Jacob Paperna
Person · 1840-08-30–1919-02-18 · Autor, Literaturwissenschaftler, writer · Kapylʹ · 7 sources
(1840–1919), Hebrew poet and critic. Avraham Ya‘akov Paperna was born in Kapolia (Kapyl), in the Minsk district of Russia, and was drawn to the Haskalah from an early age. In 1859, Paperna’s family moved to Bobruisk, and…
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Berthold Auerbach
Person · 1812-02-28–1882-02-08 · Literaturwissenschaftler, Philosoph, Publizist · Nordstetten (Horb am Neckar) · 7 sources
Herausgeber von Volkskalendern; Verfechter jüdischer Emanzipation
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Ernst Toller
Person · 1893-12-01–1939-05-22 · Autorenlesung, Drehbuchautor, Politiker · Szamocin · 7 sources
1914 Freiwilliger im Ersten Weltkrieg, 1917 Fortsetzung des Studiums der Rechtswissenschaften in München und Heidelberg, 1918 Beteiligung beim Umsturz in Bayern und der Ausrufung der Münchener Räterepublik sowie Zweit…
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Jakob Wassermann
Person · 1873-03-10–1934-01-01 · Authors, Dramatiker, Erzähler · Fürth (Bayern) · 7 sources
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