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Fikhman, Yaʿaḳov
(1881–1958), Hebrew poet, critic, and editor. Born in Beltsy (Bălți), Bessarabia, Ya‘akov Fichmann received a traditional and secular education, and was well versed in Hebrew maskilic writing as well as Yiddish, Russian,…
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Gershon ben Salomo, Arles
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Gnessin, Uri Nissan
(1879–1913), Hebrew and Yiddish writer and translator. Born in Starodub, Ukraine, Uri Gnessin belonged to a generation of Hebrew writers who disagreed with the criticism of traditional Judaism by Haskalah writers. When G…
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Herzl, Theodor
Österreichisch-ungarischer Schriftsteller, Publizist und Journalist. Er gilt als Hauptbegründer des politischen Zionismus.
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Josef ben Juda ibn Aknin
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Josef Chaim Brenner
(1881–1921), Hebrew writer. Yosef Ḥayim Brenner was born in Novy Mlini, a shtetl in the district of Chernigov, Ukraine, and murdered near Tel Aviv on 2 May 1921. From 1894 to 1897 Brenner studied at the Pochep yeshiva. B…
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Joshua Lorki
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Martin Buber
Österreichisch-israelischer jüdischer Religionsphilosoph
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Max Bodenheimer
Deutscher Jurist jüdischer Religion, Vorreiter der zionistischen Bewegung in Deutschland und in der Folge einflussreicher Funktionär der Zionistischen Weltorganisation
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Moshe Leib Lilienblum
(1843–1910), Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian writer; maskil. Mosheh Leib Lilienblum was born in Kaidan (Kedainiai), Lithuania, where he received a Talmudic education. His father married him off at the age of 13 to a girl of…
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Praigerzon, Tsevi
(also known in Russian as Grigorii Izrailevich; 1900–1969), Hebrew writer. Tsevi Preigerzon was born in Shepetovka, in the Volhynia region; his father was a Zionist maskil, and his mother a member of the well-known Halpe…
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Salomon Rubin
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Saul Tschernichowski
(1875–1943), poet and translator. Sha’ul Tchernichowsky was born in the village of Mikhailovka (Tavria province), on the Russia–Ukraine border. His family was rooted in a non-Jewish environment and was also closely assoc…
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Schimon Peres
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Suzkever, Abraham
(1913–2010), Yiddish poet. Born in Smorgon’, a small industrial city southeast of Vilna, Avrom Sutzkever spent his early childhood in Omsk, Siberia, where his parents took refuge from the invading German armies during Wo…
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Weltsch, Robert
(1891–1984), Zionist activist, journalist, and essayist. Robert Weltsch was born in Prague to one of the oldest and most respected Jewish families in the city. His father, attorney Theodore Weltsch, was active in local J…
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Wladimir Zeev Jabotinsky
(1880–1940), Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Party. Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky was born in Odessa to an assimilated, middle-class Jewish family. He was educated entirely in Russian, and as a teenager spent two ye…
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Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Yosef, Corbeil
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Abraham Leon
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Aharon Appelfeld
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