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Hurwitz, Saul Israel
(1861–1922), Hebrew essayist and editor. Born near Gomel in White Russia (mod. Homel’, Belarus), Sha’ul Hurwitz (also known as Shai Ish Hurwitz) received an enlightened Talmudic education and emulated the progressive ten…
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Ida Dehmel
Dt. Feministin und Kunstfreundin. In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus als Jüdin verfolgt und schwer erkrankt, nahm sie sich 1942 das Leben.
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Ida Kamińska
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Ignacy Schiper
(1884–1943), historian, political activist, and Sejm deputy. Energetic, creative, and imaginative, Ignacy Schiper (often spelled Schipper) was one of the leading Jewish historians of interwar Poland, a pioneer in Jewish …
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Ignacy Schwarzbart
(1888–1961), Polish Zionist leader. Born in Chrzanów, Ignacy (Yitsḥak) Schwarzbart took a law degree at Kraków’s Jagiellonian University, where he was a member of the Zionist student association Przedświt (The Dawn). Fol…
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Ignatz Kolisch
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Ignatz Lichtenstein
Ungar. Bezirksrabbiner in Tápiószele, gab 1892 sein Rabbineramt auf, wurde Anhänger des messianischen Judentums und wirkte missionarisch.
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Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln
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Ignaz Ziegler
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Ignotus
(1869–1949), writer, poet, critic, and editor. Hugó Ignotus’s father, Leo Veigelsberg (1846–1907) was a publicist and editor in chief of the leading German-language Hungarian daily Pester Lloyd. Ignotus (he formally adop…
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Igor Stravinsky
1910-1914 in der Schweiz; 1920-1939 in Frankreich, 1934 naturalisiert; ab 1940 in den USA, 1946 amerikanischer Staatsbürger
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Iliazd
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Ilja Jakowlewitsch Ginzburg
(1859–1939), sculptor. A child prodigy, Gintsburg was born in Grodno; he became a student of Mark Antokol’skii, who took him to Saint Petersburg in 1870. Gintsburg entered the Russian Academy in 1878 and received the off…
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Ilja Lwowitsch Selwinski
(1899–1968), Russian poet, playwright, and novelist. Il’ia Selvinskii’s achievements include the epic poem Ulialaevshchina (The Lay of Ulyalaev; 1924, pub. 1927) and the novel in verse Pushtorg (Fur Trade; 1928). He was …
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Ilona Eibenschütz
Studierte bei Carl Marek in Pest, bei Hans Schmitt in Leipzig und bei Clara Schumann in Frankfurt am Main; heiratete 1902 Carl Derenburg
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Ilya Ilf
(1897–1937), Russian writer. With Evgenii Petrov, Il’ia Il’f (originally surnamed Fainzil’berg) wrote some of Soviet Russia’s most exuberant satires. Their two novels, Dvenadtsat’ stul’ev (The Twelve Chairs; 1928) and Zo…
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Imber, Shmuel Yankev
(1889–1942?), Yiddish and Polish author and critic. Shmuel Yankev Imber was born in the provincial town of Jezierna in eastern Galicia; his father was Shemaryahu Imber, a maskil Zionist author and nephew of Naftali Herz …
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Immanuel Lewy
Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 1907. -1925-1933 Lehrer an der Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule in Berlin-Neukölln. 1938 Emigration aus Deutschland nach England. -Ab 1945 wohnhaft in New York, NY, USA
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Iossif Moissejewitsch Tschaikow
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Isaac Ben Jacob
Hebräischer Bibliograph, führend in der russischen Haskala-Bewegung
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