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Bernhard Beer
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Bernstein, Elsa
Unterhielt einen der bedeutendsten Salons der Jahrhundertwende; Holocaust-Überlebende (1942 ins KZ Dachau und anschließend in KZ Theresienstadt deportiert)
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Boraischa, Menachem
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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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Brunner, Heinrich
Kuratorin im Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
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Chaim Heller
(1879–1960), rabbi and biblical scholar. Born in Białystok, Ḥayim Heller earned a doctorate from the University of Würzburg in Germany and was appointed rabbi of Łomża in 1912, a position that he resigned from within mon…
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Close, Upton
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David Cassel
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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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David Zvi Hoffmann
Sohn des Dajan und Gemara-Lehrers Mosche Jehuda Löb H. in Verbó Schwiegersohn von Rb. Jonah Rosenbaum, Zell b. Würzburg. Besuch der Jeschiwa in Verbó, rabbinischer Unterricht bei Schmuel Sommer und Mosche Schik (Jeschiwa…
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Einhorn, David
Sohn des Mayer E., bezieht mit Leopold Stein zum SS 1825 die Fürther Jeschiwa und hört bei Hamburger und Falkenauer, 1827 nach Würzburg, Privatunterricht in den Schulfächern unter Aufsicht des Direktors des Gymnasiums, 1…
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Eisik Hirsch Weiss
Sohn des wohlhabenden Handelsmanns Meier W. und der Rivka, besucht das Cheder und wird 1823 auf Anraten von Rb. Tobias Lewitt in die Talmudschule von Moses Aron Tüchler eingeschult, 1828 erhält er den späteren Rb. Wolf M…
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Eisler, Leopold
Schüler von Abr. Placzek in Boskovice (Boskowitz), dann an der Universität Prag und bei S. L. Rapoport 1856 Kreisrb. in Ivanovice den Sitz verlegt er 1892 in die neue Gem. in Vyškov (Wischau).
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Elieser Steinbarg
(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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Elye Falkovitsh
(1898–1979), Yiddish linguist. Elye Falkovitsh was born in Gomel, where he spent the first 19 years of his life. At age 15, he began giving private lessons as a tutor and soon joined the local Tse‘ire Tsiyon organization…
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Francisco Franco
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Franz Kafka
(1883–1924), writer. A Jewish writer who was born and lived most of his life in Prague, Franz Kafka was one of the most important contributors to European modernist prose. All of his surviving fiction was composed in Ger…
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Franz Werfel
(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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Friedrich Adler
Dt. Bildhauer u. Kunstgewerbler jüdischen Glaubens
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Fürst, Julius
Gelehrter für semitische Sprachen und Vertreter der Haskala; 1839-1873 an der Universität Leipzig tätig
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