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Sophokles
Griech. Dichter, der v.a. Tragödien, daneben aber auch Elegien und Paeane schrieb
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Isaac Satanow
Hebräischer Dichter, philosophischer Schriftsteller und Gelehrter, gehörte zum engeren Kreis der jüdischen Aufklärer (Maskilim) um Moses Mendelssohn und leitete im Wechsel mit Isaak Euchel die Orientalische Buchdruck…
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Salomo Löwisohn
(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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Juda al-Charisi
Sefer Tachkemoni; Span.-jüd. Dichter und Übersetzer
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Heinrich Heine
Emigrierte 1831 nach Frankreich; kaufmännische Ausbildung
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Heinrich Landesmann
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Jehuda Leib Gordon
(1831–1892), the most important Hebrew poet of the nineteenth century; leading figure of the Russian Haskalah movement. Yehudah Leib Gordon was born in Vilna in 1831 and started writing Hebrew poetry at a young age. He s…
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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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Abraham Dob Lebensohn
(1794–1878), maskil, biblical commentator, poet, and playwright. Born in Vilna, Avraham Dov Lebensohn (known by the pseudonym Adam ha-Kohen [also rendered Hakohen]) married a girl from Mikhailishok in northern Belorussia…
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Abraham ibn Esra
Span.-jüd. Exeget, Dichter, Astrologe, Astronom
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Achimaats ben Paltiel
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Aharon Amir
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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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David
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Elia Levita
Dt.-jüd. Philologe, Grammatiker, Lexikograph, Rabbi, Dichter
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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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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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Hirsch Glik
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Ilja Grigorjewitsch Ehrenburg
(1891–1967), writer, journalist, and poet. Ilya Ehrenburg was born in Kiev. In 1895, his family was permitted to move to Moscow, where his father managed a brewery. Inspired by his older high school comrade Nikolai Bukha…
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Itzhak Katzenelson
(1885–1944), Hebrew and Yiddish poet. Born in Karelitz, near Minsk, Belorussia, Yitsḥak Katzenelson acquired his Hebrew education from his father, Ya‘akov Binyamin Katzenelson, a maskilic teacher and writer. From 1896, K…
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