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Uri Nissan Gnessin
(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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Vladimir Solovyov
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Wiener, Max
Sohn des Lederwarenhändlers Isidor W. und der Amalie, geb. Marcus Enkel von Rb. Adolph Wiener. Besuch des Gymnasiums in Oppeln, 1902-1903 u. (1904-)1906 Univ. und JTS Breslau, Mitglied der jüd. Stud.-Verbindung Amicitia …
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Wilhelm Bacher
(1850–1913), Talmudic scholar, orientalist, and rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest. A descendant of the eighteenth-century German rabbi Ya’ir Ḥayim Bacharach, and a son of Hebrew poet Simon Bacher (Bacharach),…
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Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild
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Wilhelm Marr
Deutscher Journalist und Antisemit. Zwischenzeitlich Mitglied der Hamburger Bürgerschaft. Gründer der Antisemitenliga
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Wladimir Zeev Jabotinsky
(1880–1940), Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Party. Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky was born in Odessa to an assimilated, middle-class Jewish family. He was educated entirely in Russian, and as a teenager spent two ye…
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Wolf Pascheles
(1814–1857), Hebrew printer, publisher, and bookseller. The son of impoverished parents, Wolf Pascheles earned his livelihood from childhood by tutoring in Prague and its immediate vicinity. In 1828, he edited and publis…
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Yehuda L. Katzenelson
(1846–1917), Russian and Hebrew writer. Born in Chernigov, Russia, Yehudah Leib-Binyamin Katzenelson, who adopted the pseudonym Buki ben Yogli (the name of the head of the biblical tribe of Dan), grew up in Gomel. In 186…
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Yisrael Meir Kagan
(1838–1933), prominent halakhic authority and Orthodox Jewish leader. Yisra’el Me’ir ha-Kohen (Kagan; original surname Poupko), who became known as Ḥafets Ḥayim after the title of his first book, was one of the major rab…
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Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal
(1885–1945), Hasidic rabbi. Born in Nagyhalász in northeastern Hungary and educated in Hasidic yeshivas in Poland and Hungary, Yisakhar Shelomoh Teichthal studied in several Hasidic kloyzn (small study and prayer houses)…
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Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
Rabbi Jizchak Zev Soloveitchik (als Griz bekannten oder Brisker Rov [1]; 1886 - neun Tischri Ts "c, 1959) war der Rabbi von Brisk und Rosh Yeshiva in Brisk und dann ab 1954 in Jerusalem Führer der aus Litauen stammenden…
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Zalman Leib Teitelbaum
Hasidischer Rabbiner aus Sziget (Ungarn)
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Zeev Latsky
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Zivion
geb. in Litauen, wanderte 1908 in die USA (New York) aus
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Zvi Hirsch Chajes
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A. B. Rozenshṭeyn
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Aaron Hyman
Aus Russland stammender Londoner Rabbiner und Gelehrter, wanderte 1933 nach Erets Yisrael ein
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud
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Abdallah Somekh
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