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Aharon Amir
Person · 1923–2008 · poet · Kaunas · 9 sources
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Hirsch Glik
Person · 1922–1944 · Schriftsteller, poet · Wilna · 9 sources
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Abba Kovner
Person · 1918-03-14–1987-09-25 · poet · Sewastopol · 8 sources
(1918–1987), partisan and poet, leader and intellectual, and a central figure in twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli history and cultural life. Born in Sebastopol, Abba Kovner moved to Vilna as a child; the Jewish commu…
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Abraham Sutzkever
Person · 1913-07-15–2010-01-19 · Poet, Schriftsteller, poet · Smorgon' · 8 sources
(1913–2010), Yiddish poet. Born in Smorgon’, a small industrial city southeast of Vilna, Avrom Sutzkever spent his early childhood in Omsk, Siberia, where his parents took refuge from the invading German armies during Wo…
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Jehuda Amichai
Person · 1924-05-03–2000-09-22 · Lyriker, poet, Übersetzer · Würzburg · 8 sources
Holocaust-Überlebender, Familie zog 1935 nach Israel und legte 1946 den Namen Pfeuffer ab; Israel. Schriftsteller
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Lea Goldberg
Person · 1911-05-29–1970-01-15 · Illustrator, Linguistin, Poet · Königsberg · 8 sources
(1911–1970), poet, novelist, playwright, and literary scholar. Born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), then an important center of the Haskalah movement and Hebrew culture, Leah Goldberg moved in her early childhood to Kov…
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Paul Celan
Person · 1920-11-23–1970-04-28 · Lektor <Verlag>, Lyriker, Schriftsteller · Cernăuţi · 8 sources
(Paul Antschel; 1920–1970), poet. Considered one of the most important post–World War II European poets, Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz, in Bucovina, the easternmost province of the former Habsburg monarchy, which had…
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Alexander Arkadjewitsch Galitsch
Person · 1918-10-15–1977-12-15 · Authors, Russian, Dramatiker, Drehbuchautor · Jekaterinoslaw · 7 sources
(Pseudonym of Aleksandr Arkad’evich Ginzburg; 1918–1977), poet, songwriter, playwright, screenwriter, and prose writer. Born in Moscow and raised in Sebastopol, Galich was celebrated in the 1940s and 1950s for his dramat…
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Boris Slutsky
Person · 1919–1986 · Schriftsteller, poet · Slavyansk · 7 sources
(1919–1986), Russian poet. Boris Slutskii spent his childhood and youth in Kharkov. His serious early interests in literature, art, and history led him to attend the Moscow Institute of Law (1937) and then, on the recomm…
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Emmanuil Kazakevich
Person · 1913–1962 · Schriftsteller, poet · Kremenchuk (Poltavsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) · 7 sources
(1913–1962), Yiddish and Russian writer. Emmanuil Kazakevich was born in the Ukrainian town of Kremenchug. His father, Henekh Kazakevich (1883–1935), was a Jewish political activist and journalist who joined the Bolshevi…
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Erich Neumann
Person · 1905–1960 · Arzt, Psychologe, poet · Berlin · 7 sources
Erstudium Philosphie in Erlangen (Promotion 1927), dann Medizin in Berlin (1933)
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Hannah Szenes
Person · 1921-07-17–1944-11-07 · Fallschirmjäger, Schriftstellerin, Widerstandskämpferin · Budapest · 7 sources
Ungarische Dichterin und jüdische Widerstandskämpferin, die als Fallschirmjägerin aus Mandatspalästina in der Britischen Armee im 2. Weltkrieg an einer Rettungsaktion teilnahm und von den Nationalsozialisten gefolter…
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Itzik Feffer
Person · 1900-11-23–1952 · poet · Shpola · 7 sources
(1900–1952), Yiddish poet. Born in Shpola, Ukraine, Itsik Fefer was 12 years old when he began to work at a printing shop. In 1917 he joined the Bund and became a trade union activist. A Communist from 1919, he served in…
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Jan Brzechwa
Person · 1900-08-15–1966-07-02 · Kinderbuchautor, Lyriker, Satiriker · Zhmerinka · 7 sources
(1898–1966), poet, satirist, and children’s book author. Jan Brzechwa (Jan Wiktor Lesman), a cousin of the poet Bolesław Leśmian, was born into a family of assimilated Jews; his father converted to Protestantism. Brzechw…
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Juli Markowitsch Daniel
Person · 1925-11-15–1988-12-30 · Schriftsteller, poet, Übersetzer · Moskau · 7 sources
(1925–1968), fiction writer, poet, translator, and Soviet dissident. Born in Moscow, Daniel’ went from school directly to the front lines of World War II, where he was wounded and demobilized. Upon his return, he graduat…
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Julia Weiner
Person · 1935–2022-02-13 · Lyrikerin, Poet, Schriftstellerin · Moskau · 7 sources
Russ.-Judisch. Autorin, lebt seit 1971 in Izrael
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M. Blecher
Person · 1909–1938 · Schriftsteller, poet · 7 sources
(1909–1938), writer. Max Blecher (he signed his works “M. Blecher”) was born in Botoşani, Romania, and spent his childhood and adolescence in Roman, where his family settled, and where there was a large Jewish community.…
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Menachem Froman
Person · 1945–2013 · Friedensaktivist, Poet, Rabbi · Kefar Ḥasidim (Israel) · 7 sources
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Miklós Radnóti
Person · 1909–1944 · Lehrer, Lyriker, Schriftsteller · Budapest · 7 sources
(1910–1944), poet and translator. Considered one of the great Hungarian poets of the twentieth century, Miklós Radnóti was born Miklós Glatter, of Jewish parents, although he remained indifferent toward his Jewish roots …
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Rose Ausländer
Person · 1901-05-11–1988-01-03 · Autorin, Librettistin, Lyrikerin · Czernowitz · 7 sources
Auszeichnung: Trägerin des Literaturpreises der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste, des Meersburger Droste-Preises, dem Andreas-Gryphius-Preis und der Roswitha-Gedenkmedaille
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