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Peretz Markish
(1895–1952), Yiddish poet, prose writer, playwright, and essayist. Perets Markish was born to impoverished parents in Polonnoye, a town in Volhynia. He received a heder education and left home at a young age, working at …
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Sachs, Nelly
Deutsch-schwedische Dichterin und Dramatikerin, Nobelpreis für Literatur (1966)
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Salomon Mandelkern
(1846–1902), Hebrew poet, author of a major biblical concordance. Born in Mlynów, Volhynia, Shelomoh Mandelkern received a broad traditional education. At the age of 16 he was sent to Dubno to continue his studies, and f…
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Schem Tov ibn Falaquera
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Solomon ibn Gabirol
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Alexander Arkadjewitsch Galitsch
(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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André Spire
New York (Wirkungsort); Franz. Schriftsteller
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Antonio Enríquez Gómez
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Arno Nadel
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Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw
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Benjamin Fondane
(1898–1944), poet and philosopher. Born in Iaşi, Romania, Beniamin Fundoianu was the son of Isac Wechsler, a small tradesman from Herța (in Bucovina), and of Adela, sister of Jewish scholars Elias, Wilhelm, and Moses Sch…
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Bolesław Leśmian
(1877–1937), poet and essayist. The great-grandson of Antoni Eisenbaum, director of the Warsaw Rabbinical School, Leśmian (whose last name originally was Lesman) was baptized in 1887. He spent his youth in Ukraine where,…
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Boris Slutsky
(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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Catulle Mendès
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David Hofstein
(1889–1952), Yiddish poet. Born in Korostyshev, not far from Kiev, Dovid Hofshteyn was educated at a heder and by private teachers in Russian and Hebrew. His father, a forester, was a maskil; his mother came from the Ped…
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Dunasch ben Labrat
Hebräischer Dichter, Linguist und Exeget; als Sohn einer aus Bagdad stammenden Familie wurde er in Fez (oder Bagdad) geboren; in Bagdad studierte er bei Seʿadyah Gaʾon, wirkte später in Fez und um 960 in Córdoba; gilt…
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Emmanuil Kazakevich
(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 Mühsam
1909 Gründer der Gruppe „Die Tat“; 1919 Mitglied im Revolutionären Zentralrat zur Zeit der Münchner Räterepublik
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Erich Neumann
Erstudium Philosphie in Erlangen (Promotion 1927), dann Medizin in Berlin (1933)
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Hannah Szenes
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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