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Abraham Bär Gottlober
Person · 1810–1899 · Schriftsteller, historian, poet · Starokonstantinov · 8 sources
(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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Salomo Löwisohn
Person · 1789–1821 · historian, poet · Mor · 8 sources
(1789–1821), Hebrew poet, linguist, and historian. Salomon Löwisohn was born in Mór, Hungary, a small community led by his relatives, the prominent Rosenthal and Saphir families, who played key roles in the Hungarian Has…
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Hans Kohn
Person · 1891–1971 · Auslandskorrespondent, Historiker, Journalist · Prag · 7 sources
(1891–1971), Zionist activist, journalist, and scholar of modern nationalism. Hans Kohn was born in Prague to a bilingual (Czech and German) Jewish family; his parents came from the Czech regions outside the Bohemian cap…
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Nathan Hannover
Person · 1620–1683-07-14 · Author, Rabbi, historian · Ostrog · 7 sources
(d. 1683), chronicler of the Khmel’nyts’kyi uprising (gzeyres takh vetat). Presumably born in Ostróg in Volhynia, Natan Note (often Neta‘ or Nata) Hannover studied at the local yeshiva and then seems to have traveled acr…
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Benjamin of Tudela
Person · ?–1173 · Reisender, explorer, historian · Tudela · 6 sources
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Cassel, David
Person · 1818–1893 · Author, Gelehrter, Hebraist · Glogau · 6 sources
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Dubnov, Semen M.
Person · 1860–1941 · Historiker, historian · Mstislavl · 6 sources
(1860–1941), Russian Jewish historian and ideologue of Jewish Diaspora nationalism. Simon Dubnow was born in Mstislavl in the Belorussian sector of the Russian Pale of Settlement to a religiously observant family; his fa…
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Flavius Josephus
Person · 0037–0100 · Author, Historians, Historiker · Jerusalem · 6 sources
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Gans, Daṿid ben Shelomoh
Person · 1541–1613 · Astronom, Author, Historiker · Lippstadt · 6 sources
(1541–1613), chronicler, astronomer, mathematician, and teacher. David Gans was born into a well-to-do merchant family in Westphalia. As a youth he studied with Mosheh Isserles, the renowned head of the Kraków yeshiva. G…
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Herzfeld, Levi
Person · 1810–1884 · Judaist, Rabbi, Rabbiner · Ellrich · 6 sources
Geb. 28. Dez. 1810 in Ellrich am Harz,Gest. 11. März 1884 in BraunschweigSohn des Kaufmanns Ruben H. und der Friederike Levi, mit 15 J. zum Gymnasium in Nordhausen, mit 19 J. Abitur, lernt kurze Zeit bei Bing in Würzbu…
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Jizchak Ben Zwi
Person · 1884–1963 · Politiker, historian, politician · Poltava · 6 sources
Israelischer Historiker, Politiker der zionistischen Arbeiterbewegung und von 1952 bis 1963 der zweite Präsident Israels
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Joseph Gedalja Klausner
Person · 1874–1958 · Historiker, Hochschullehrer, Literarhistoriker · Valkininkas · 6 sources
(1874–1958), critic, researcher, and editor. Yosef Klausner was born in Olkeniki, near Vilna. In 1885, his family moved to Odessa and he became involved in the activities of the Ḥibat Tsiyon movement and in organizations…
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Jost, Isaak Markus
Person · 1793–1860 · Historiker, Pädagoge, historian · Bernburg · 6 sources
Deutscher Historiker der Geschichte der Juden
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Lajos Blau
Person · 1861–1936 · historian · Putnok · 6 sources
(1861–1936), Talmudic scholar, historian, and rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest. Born in Putnok, Hungary, Lajos (Ludwig) Blau studied at the Pressburg yeshiva and attended the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest.…
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Majer Samuel Bałaban
Person · 1877–1942 · historian · Lemberg · 6 sources
(1877–1942), historian and educator. Majer Bałaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and the first to synthesize both Polish archival sources and Jewish communal records and rabbinic resp…
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Ringelblum, Emanuel
Person · 1900–1944 · Archivar, Historiker, Pädagoge · Butschatsch · 6 sources
(1900–1944), Polish Jewish historian, relief worker, political activist, and organizer of the underground Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw ghetto. Born in Buczacz, Emanuel Ringelblum moved to Nowy Sącz in 1914. Under t…
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Salomo ibn Verga
Person · 1460–1554 · Author, historian · Sevilla · 6 sources
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Achimaats ben Paltiel
Person · 1017–1054 · historian, poet · Capua · 5 sources
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Barḳai, Avraham
Person · 1921–2020-02-29 · Historiker, historian · Berlin · 5 sources
Avraham Barkai, Dr. phil., geb. 1921, war Research Fellow am Leo Baeck Institut Jerusalem, an der Universität Tel Aviv sowie im Forschungszentrum der Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem. 2003 erhielt er die Ehrendoktorwürde der Frei…
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Chaim Schirmann
Person · 1904–1981 · Hebraist, historian, scholar · Kiev · 5 sources
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