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Mark Twain
Amerikan. Schriftsteller, auch Übersetzungen und Reisebeschreibungen; zunächst Drucker, Lotse, Soldat, Journalist
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Abba Gordin
Jidd. und hebr. Schriftsteller, geb. in Weißrussland, lebte in Russland, USA und Israel
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Jiří Langer
(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
(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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Saul Tschernichowski
(1875–1943), poet and translator. Sha’ul Tchernichowsky was born in the village of Mikhailovka (Tavria province), on the Russia–Ukraine border. His family was rooted in a non-Jewish environment and was also closely assoc…
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Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak
(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
(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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Grunwald, Max
Gymnasium in Gleiwitz (Gliwice), 1889 JTS und Univ. Breslau, 10. Nov. 1892 Promotion in Rostock. 1895 Rb. an der Neuen Dammtor-Synagoge in Hamburg, Mitglied der Henry Jones Loge Hamburg begründete 1897 in Hamburg die Ges…
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Jacob Fichman
(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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Samuel Agnon
(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
(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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David Frischmann
(1859–1922), Hebrew and Yiddish writer and editor, literary critic, translator, and poet. David Frishman was born to a family of wealthy merchants in Zgierz, near Łódź. When he was two years old, his family moved to Łódź…
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Hirsch Edelmann
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Isaak Emmanuilowitsch Babel
(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
(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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Josef Chaim Brenner
(1881–1921), Hebrew writer. Yosef Ḥayim Brenner was born in Novy Mlini, a shtetl in the district of Chernigov, Ukraine, and murdered near Tel Aviv on 2 May 1921. From 1894 to 1897 Brenner studied at the Pochep yeshiva. B…
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Mark Aldanov
Wirkl. Name von M.A. Aldanov ist M.A. Landau
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Martin Buber
Religionsphilosoph; 1924-1933 Lehrbeauftragter, dann Honorarprofessor für jüdische Religionslehre und Ethik an der Universität Frankfurt, 1938-1951 Professor für Anthropologie und Soziologie an der Hebräischen Unive…
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Max Bodenheimer
Deutscher Jurist jüdischer Religion, Vorreiter der zionistischen Bewegung in Deutschland und in der Folge einflussreicher Funktionär der Zionistischen Weltorganisation
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Miriam Singer
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