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Hartwig Wessely
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Homberg, Naphtali Herz
(1749–1841), Bohemian maskil and author. Herz Homberg is known mainly for having been the government-appointed supervisor of the German Jewish school system in Galicia between 1787 and 1806. He fully endorsed the policy …
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Isaac Satanow
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Mendelssohn, Moses
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David Friedländer
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Rülf, Isaak
Geb. 10. Feb. 1831 in Rauischholzhausen bei Marburg,Gest. 18. Sept. 1902 in BonnSohn des unbemittelten Viehzüchters Juda R., mit 14 J. zum Studium bei Rabbiner M. Wetzlar in Gudensberg, 1849 Lehrerprüfung, sodann Hilfs…
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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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Isaac Abraham Euchel
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Salomon Maimon
(1754–1800), maskil and philosopher. Salomon Maimon (Shelomoh ben Yehoshu‘a) was born and raised near Nieśwież in Poland–Lithuania (now Nesvizh, Belarus). He received a Talmudic education, married at 11, and soon began t…
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Beer, Peter
(ca. 1758–1838), educator, historian, and religious reformer. Peter Beer was born in Nový Bydžov (Neu-Bidschow), Bohemia, to a middle-class family. He received a traditional Jewish education, attended yeshivas in Prague …
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Berlin, Saul
Geb. 1740 in Glogau,Gest. 16. Nov. 1794 in LondonSohn des Berliner Oberrb. Hirschel Lewin, talmudische Ausbildung in Berlin. Verheiratet mit Sarel Fränkel (geb. 1744 in Breslau, gest. 1810 in Berlin), der Tochter des B…
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Carmoly, Eliakim
Geb. 5. Aug. 1802 in Soultz (Sulz), Oberelsaß,Gest. 15. Febr. 1875 in Frankfurt/MEnkel des Rb. Issaschar Baer (1735- 1781) in Soultz, talmud. Ausbildung in Colmar, Metz und Mainz, franz. Studien in Paris18. Mai 1832 Ko…
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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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Elia Levita
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Fassel, Hirsch Baer
Geb. 21. Aug. 1802 in Boskovice (Boskowitz), Mähren,Gest. 26. Dez. 1883 in Nagykanizsa (Groß-Kanischa), UngarnAbsolvent der Sofer-Jeschiwa in Preßburg, dann Geschäftsmann, verliert sein Vermögen, 1836 Rb. in Prostìjov …
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Frankel, Zacharias
Geb. 30. Sept. 1801 in Prag,Gest. 13. Feb. 1875 in BreslauÄltester Sohn des Koppelmann F., Abkömmling der bedeutenden Rabbinerfamilien Fränkel aus Wien und Spiro aus Prag, und der Esther Fischels, einer Tochter des Lei…
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Heine, Heinrich
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Jeremias Heinemann
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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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PASTERNAK Boris Leonidovich
(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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