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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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David Cassel
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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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Jizchak Ben Zwi
Aus der Ukraine nach Palästina emigriert; 2. Präsident Israels (1952-1963); Bruder von Aharon Re'ûvēni
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Joseph Gedalja Klausner
(1874–1958), critic, researcher, and editor. Yosef Klausner was born in Olkeniki, near Vilna. In 1885, his family moved to Odessa and he became involved in the activities of the Ḥibat Tsiyon movement and in organizations…
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Majer Samuel Bałaban
(1877–1942), historian and educator. Majer Bałaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and the first to synthesize both Polish archival sources and Jewish communal records and rabbinic resp…
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Abraham Harkavy
(1835–1919), historian, public activist, and librarian. Avraham (Albert Iakovlevich) Harkavy was born into a wealthy and prominent family in Novogrudok, Minsk guberniia, where he received a typical religious education. A…
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Aron Freimann
Studium der Geschichte und Orientalistik in Berlin und Besuch des dortigen orthodoxen Rabbinerseminars, promovierte in Erlangen zum Doktor der Philosophie; von 1898 bis zur seiner Entlassung im März 1933 wirkte er als B…
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Elieser Landshuth
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Herzfeld, Levi
Sohn des Kaufmanns Ruben H. und der Friederike Levi, mit 15 J. zum Gymnasium in Nordhausen, mit 19 J. Abitur, lernt kurze Zeit bei Bing in Würzburg, dann bei Egers in Braunschweig. 27. Apr. 1833 imm. Berlin, Triennium mi…
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Lajos Blau
(1861–1936), Talmudic scholar, historian, and rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest. Born in Putnok, Hungary, Lajos (Ludwig) Blau studied at the Pressburg yeshiva and attended the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest.…
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Markus Horovitz
Viertes Kind des Toragelehrten Joseph Chajim und seiner Ehefrau Hindel, Tochter des R. Wolf Gross nach dem frühen Tod des Vaters aufgewachsen im Haus der Tante in Ujhely. Besuch der Jeschiwot von Ujhely, Verbó (Chaim Zvi…
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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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Simon Dubnow
(1860–1941), Russian Jewish historian and ideologue of Jewish Diaspora nationalism. Simon Dubnow was born in Mstislavl in the Belorussian sector of the Russian Pale of Settlement to a religiously observant family; his fa…
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Aby Warburg
Gründer einer kunstwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek; Verfasser kunsthistorischer Werke
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Adolf Büchler
Lehrer für jüdische Geschichte, Bibel und Talmud an der Israelitisch-Theolog. Lehranstalt in Wien; Forschungsschwerpunkte: Religionsgeschichte und Talmud-Forschung
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Arnold J. Toynbee
Brit. Historiker, Kulturphilosoph; Prof. für byzantinische u. moderne Geschichte
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Ben-Zion Dinur
President of The Jewish Historical Soc. of Israel, founder of "Zion"
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Benjamin II.
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Cecil Roth
Jüdischer Historiker, Chefred. der Erstausg. der Enc. Judaica, lebte in London, Jerusalem und New York
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