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Abraham Bär Gottlober
Person · 1810–1899 · Schriftsteller, historian, poet · Starokonstantinov · 8 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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PASTERNAK Boris Leonidovich
Person · 1890–1960 · Authors, Russian, Komponist, Schriftsteller · Moskau · 7 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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Werfel, Franz
Person · 1890–1945 · Librettist, Schriftsteller, Sprecher · Prag · 7 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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Elieser Steinbarg
Person · 1880–1932 · Schriftsteller, poet · Lipkany · 6 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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Ilja Grigorjewitsch Ehrenburg
Person · 1891–1967 · Authors, Russian, Drehbuchautor, Schriftsteller · Kiew · 6 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 · 6 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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Jehuda Leib Gordon
Person · 1830–1892 · Schriftsteller, poet · Wilna · 6 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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August Strindberg
Person · 1849–1912 · novelist, painter, playwright · Stockholm · 5 sources
Schwedischer Schriftsteller und Künstler
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Fikhman, Yaʿaḳov
Person · 1881–1958 · Kritiker, Pädagoge, Schriftsteller · Balti · 5 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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Füst, Milán
Person · 1888–1967 · Schriftsteller, poet · 5 sources
(1888–1967), Hungarian poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and diarist. The descendant of the illustrious Fürst family, he dropped the “r” from Fürst for the more poetic Füst, meaning “smoke” in Hungarian. Milán Füst’s…
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Lasker-Schüler, Else
Person · 1869–1945 · Künstlerin, Lyrikerin, Painter · Wuppertal-Elberfeld · 5 sources
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Mandelkern, Solomon
Person · 1846–1902 · Rabbi, Schriftsteller, Übersetzer · Mlyniv · 5 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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Aderca, Felix
Person · 1891–1962 · Autor, poet · 4 sources
(1891–1962), writer, playwright, literary critic, and journalist. Felix Aderca (originally Froim Zeilic Adercu) was born in the village of Puieşti, Moldavia, to a family of merchants, and did not complete high school. He…
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Almanzi, Giuseppe
Person · 1801–1860 · Bibliophiler, Schriftsteller, poet · Padua · 4 sources
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Bacher, Simon
Person · 1823-02-01–1891-11-09 · poet · Liptoszentmiklos · 4 sources
(1823–1891), Hebrew poet and community leader. A branch of the illustrious Bacharach family settled in Hungary around the last third of the eighteenth century. The Bachers (the shortened form of the family name was used …
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Frug, Semen G.
Person · 1860–1916 · Schriftsteller, poet · Kherson · 4 sources
(1860–1916), Russian and Yiddish poet and essayist. Once considered a shining star of Russian Jewish literature, Shimen Frug is remembered now mostly as a Zionist sympathizer and an inspiration for the Hebrew-language wr…
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Glatstein, Jacob
Person · 1896–1971 · Autor, Literaturkritiker, poet · Lublin · 4 sources
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Gofštejn, David N.
Person · 1889–1952 · poet · Korostyshev · 4 sources
(1889–1952), Yiddish poet. Born in Korostyshev, not far from Kiev, Dovid Hofshteyn was educated at a heder and by private teachers in Russian and Hebrew. His father, a forester, was a maskil; his mother came from the Ped…
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Hartmann, Moritz
Person · 1821–1872 · poet · 4 sources
(1821–1872), poet and journalist. Moritz Hartmann was born in Dušnik, Bohemia, and died in Vienna. Coming from a well-to-do family, he studied medicine and philosophy in Prague and Vienna. Hartmann associated with a circ…
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INBER Vera Mikhailovna
Person · 1890-07-10–1972 · Schriftstellerin, poet · Odessa · 4 sources
INBER Vera Mikhailovna (1890, Odessa - 1972, Moscow), writer. The father was the owner of the printing house and scientific. publishing house "Matezis", mother taught Russian. lang. Father I.'s cousin, L.D. Trotsky, was …
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