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Isaac Offenbach
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Israel Aksenfeld
(1787–1866), Yiddish playwright, novelist, and exponent of the Haskalah. Born in Nemirov (Nemyriv), western Ukraine, to an important Hasidic family, Yisroel Aksenfeld was brought up as a Bratslaver Hasid (he was personal…
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Israel Isidor Eljaschoff
(1873–1924), literary critic. Bal-Makhshoves (“Man of Thoughts”; pseudonym of Isidor [Yisroel] Eliashev) was born in Kovno, Lithuania, to a wealthy family. His father, Shloyme Zalkind Eliashev, had been a maskil in his y…
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Israel Rabon
(1900–1941), Yiddish author. Yisroel Rabon (orig. Rubin) was born in Gowarchów but grew up in Balut, a working-class suburb of Łódź. He had little formal education but read voraciously, acquiring a broad literary knowled…
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Israel Zangwill
Britischer Schriftsteller, Essayist, Journalist und politischer Aktivist in der feministischen, pazifistischen und zionistischen Bewegung
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Israel Zinberg
(1873–1939), historian of Jewish literature; chemist. Yisroel Tsinberg, also known as Sergei Lazarevich Tsinberg (often spelled Zinberg in English sources), received a traditional and a secular education, first from priv…
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Jacob Mestel
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Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal
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Jacob Steinberg
jid. u. heb. Schriftsteller, geb. in der Ukraine, 1914 nach Israel emigriert
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Jacques Derrida
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Jakob Dinesohn
(1856?–1919), Yiddish author, editor, and literary activist. Yankev Dinezon was born in the Kovno region of Lithuania; the date of his birth is uncertain and may have been as late as 1862. He received a traditional educa…
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Jakob Freimann
Sohn des Abraham Chajim F. und seiner Ehefrau Sophie, geb. Latner. Besuch der Jeschiwa in Beregszász, Ungarn zu seinen Lehrern zählten zudem Schimon Sofer, Akiba Konitzer (Krakau) und Arje J. L. Schwarz (Made/ Ungarn) Ta…
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Jakob Wassermann
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Jan Brzechwa
(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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Jazkan, Samuel Jakob
(1874–1936), publisher, editor, and publicist. Born in Vobol’niki (Vabalninkas), Lithuania, Shmuel Yankev Yatskan received a traditional Jewish education at the Ponevezh yeshiva, and rabbinical ordination in 1892. He mov…
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Jean Améry
1938 nach Belgien emigriert, dort Namenswechsel; Selbstmord in Salzburg
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Jean Vautrin
Franz. Romancier, Essayist und Regisseur; lebte von 1955-1957 in Indien
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Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi
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Jidi Majia
Angehöriger der völkischen Minderheit der Yi stammt aus dem autonomen Gebiet am Berg Liang in der Provinz Sichuan. Bekannter zeitgenössischer chinesischer Dichter und Schriftsteller. Zur Zeit Sekretär des chinesische…
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Jitzchak Sadeh
Oberbefehlshaber der Hagana, geb. in Polen
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