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Micha Josef Berdyczewski
(1865–1921), writer and thinker. Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski (or Berdichevsky) was born in Międzyboż (Medzhibizh), Ukraine, in the cradle of Hasidism, to a family descended from generations of rabbis. He received a traditi…
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Nachum Schaikewitsch
(Pseudonym of Nokhem Meyer Shaykevitch; 1849?–1905), Yiddish author and dramatist. Born in Nesvizh, Lithuania, to a wealthy family, Nokhem Meyer Shaykevitch was traditionally educated. However, he also read secular liter…
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Richard Strauss
Diesen Datensatz mit RDA bitte nicht mehr verwenden.
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Rülf, Isaak
Sohn des unbemittelten Viehzüchters Juda R., mit 14 J. zum Studium bei Rabbiner M. Wetzlar in Gudensberg, 1849 Lehrerprüfung, sodann Hilfsmentor an Rb. Wetzlars Schule, lateinische Privatstudien beim Ortspfarrer Ostern 1…
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Sachs, Michael
Sohn des Kaufmanns Naftali-Juda S. im Kindesalter Talmudstudium bei Rb. Öttinger in Glogau, mit 13 J. zum Gymnasium. 2. Mai 1827 imm. Berlin, philologisches Stud. bei Boeckh, Schleiermacher und Hegel, 30. Mai 1835 Oberle…
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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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Aaron ben Menahem Mendel
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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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Abraham Goldfaden
(1840–1908), playwright, theater director, poet, and impresario; considered the “Father of Yiddish Theater.” Avrom Goldfadn’s productions emerged during the period of the Haskalah movement in Russia and the cultural-nati…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
(1865–1935), rabbinic leader, halakhist, theologian, and mystic. Best known as the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of modern Palestine and the major theologian of religious Zionism, Kook lived in Latvia and Lithuania before…
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Abram Fjodorowitsch Joffe
(1880–1960), physicist. A graduate of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology (1902), Abram Ioffe began his scientific career in Munich, where he worked as a doctoral student in the laboratory of Wilhelm Röntgen, th…
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Achad Ha'am
(1856–1927), Zionist thinker. Born in Skvira, Ukraine, Ahad Ha-Am (born Asher Ginzberg; Heb., more properly Aḥad ha-‘Am, a pen name that translates as “One of the People”) was a Hebrew essayist of singular power and auth…
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Aharon Ḳaminḳa
1886 Reifeprüfung am Staatsgymnasium in Riga, 1882-1886 RS Berlin, seit 1886 Univ. Berlin (semitische Sprachen, Philosophie und Volkswirtschaft), 1888-1889 Univ. Sorbonne, Paris, 1889-1892 HWJ, 1893 Rabbinatszeugnis an d…
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Alter Drujanow
(1870–1938), Hebrew writer, researcher, editor, and Zionist activist. Alter Druyanow was born in the shtetl of Druja, in the Vilna region, to a rabbinic family. In 1886, he entered the Volozhin yeshiva, where he joined t…
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Aron Israel Brimann
1881 in Berlin evangelisch getaufter Jude , trat später zum Katholizismus übertrat.
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Auerbach, Hirsch Benjamin
Sohn des Bonner Rb. Abraham A. und der Esther-Rebekka Oppenheim lernt 5 J. lang in Krefeld bei Löb Carlburg, dann mehrere Jahre in Worms bei Koppel Bamberger, wird 1828 von seinen beiden Lehrern ordiniert. Verschaffte si…
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Auguste Viktoria von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
Buchbesitz: Privatbibliothek Auguste Viktoria
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Avraham Jeschajahu Karelitz
(1878–1953), Talmudic scholar and Orthodox religious authority. Avraham Yesha‘yahu Karelitz, known as Ḥazon Ish, was one of the most prominent religious authorities of the twentieth century and a major leader of Ḥaredi J…
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Ben-Avigdor
(1866–1921), Hebrew writer and publisher, known alternately by his pseudonym, Ben-Avigdor. Born in Zaludok, near Vilna, Shalkovich grew up in Zhetl, a village in the province of Grodno. Though he attended Lithuanian yesh…
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Berliner, Abraham
Sohn eines Schullehrers, Nachkomme Jesaja (Pick) Berlins verschiedene rb. Schulen, 1849 Examen am Hauptschullehrerseminar in Posen, Lehrer zunächst an seinem Geburtsort als Nachfolger des im selben Jahr gestorbenen Vater…
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