XIXth century CE

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Died in 5579 of the Hebrew era (1819). Son of Yosef. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 32-4.

Auguste Hadamard is a French painter born in Metz in 1823 and died in Paris in 1886, a student of Paul Delaroche, settled in Paris where he paints and illustrates for the press. Among his most…

Zélie Hadamard is a French actress born in Oran, in Algeria, in 1849, daughter of a military interpreter and professor of Arabic. Trained at the Conservatory of Paris, she made her debut at the…

Born in Alibag on the Konkan coast, civil servant in Bombay. He founded in 1853 the Bombay Bene Israel Benevolent Society and, in 1875 with his brothers, a school teaching Marathi and Hebrew. He left…

Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine is a bacteriologist born in Odessa in 1860, doctor of science from Odessa University in 1884. After research work in Odessa then in Geneva, where he teaches…

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5596 of the Hebrew era (1836). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 39-1.

Sephardic rabbi (d. 1931)

Tunisian rabbi

Described as the most celebrated rabbi of Algeria in the modern era, Chief Rabbi of Tlemcen (appointed in 1869). He enacted in 1874 a takana concerning civil marriages and defended the memory of…

Rabbi, 19th century. Born in 5596 of the Hebrew era (1836). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-4.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5602 of the Hebrew era (1842). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 38-4.

Tunisian rabbi

Rabbi of Salé, 19th century. Died in 5635 of the Hebrew era (1875). Son of Haim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 38-4.

Sage and teacher of Meknès, master of many dayanim; author of Nichmat Haïm.

Rabbi and teacher in Algiers at the beginning of the nineteenth century, cited in the family notice Albo/Albou by Joseph Toledano.

Member of the Picciotto family of Alep, active in the English Jewish community; biographical notice in the Jewish Encyclopedia.

Born in Manisa, trained at the yeshiva in Tiberias, then at the rabbinical seminary in Paris and the École des langues orientales at the Sorbonne. He succeeded Moses Halevi as Hakham Bashi (Chief…

Polish rabbi and historian (1820–1892)

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), 19th century. Mentioned in 5595 of the Hebrew era (1835). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 38-4.

Rabbi, 19th century. Mentioned in 5579 of the Hebrew era (1819). Son of Zaadlo. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-1.

Born in Obodivka (Podolia) in 1895, immigrated to Palestine in 1913 (member of Nahalal). Joined the editorial board of Ha-Poel ha-Tsair and then, in 1936, that of the daily newspaper Davar, of which…

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Died in 5587 of the Hebrew era (1827). Son of Yitshak. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 38-2.

Rabbi, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5602 of the Hebrew era (1842). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 38-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5569 of the Hebrew era (1809). Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 38-1.

Israel Behor Haïm is a Serbian author born in Belgrade, who left his city in 1813 during the Dahi invasion to settle in Vienna, where he edited the Ladino translation of the Bible, daily prayers, and…

Born in 1881 in the village of Narwa in Iraqi Kurdistan, he moved in adulthood to the city of Amadiya to lead its community. He translated biblical and traditional texts into the Judeo-Aramaic…

Born in Baghdad, trained at the local rabbinical seminary, he led the rabbinical court then served as Chief Rabbi of Baghdad and president of the community several times between 1927 and 1971,…

Ignác Halász, called Fischer, is a Hungarian philologist born in Tés in 1855 and died in Budapest on April 9, 1901. Trained at the gymnasia of Veszprém and Székesfehérvár then at the university of…

Heinrich, Ritter von Halban, born Blumenstock, was an Austrian statesman born in Kraków in 1846 and died in Gastein on August 13, 1902. After law studies in Kraków, he settled in Vienna before 1870…

Joseph Halévy is a French orientalist born in Andrinople on December 15, 1827. Sent in 1868 by the Alliance Israélite Universelle to study the Falashas of Abyssinia, he is then charged with a mission…

Léon Halévy is a French writer and playwright, brother of Fromental Halévy, born in Paris on January 14, 1802 and died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 2, 1883. He teaches French literature at…

Leading figure of Italicized Tripolitan Judaism: advisor to the Tripoli committee of the Dante Alighieri (institution for the dissemination of Italian language and culture) in the early 20th century,…

Rabbi of Tripoli, in North Africa, died around 1803. He is the author of the « Ḥayé Abraham », a treatise on the ritual laws of the Oraḥ Ḥayyim and the Yoré Dea (Livorno, 1826).

George Edward Halford is a soldier of the mounted infantry of the Imperial Volunteers of the City of London, born in 1878 and died at Karee, near Bloemfontein, on May 15, 1900, during the Transvaal…

Ely Halperine-Kaminsky is a Russian writer born in Vassilkov on April 9, 1858, settled in Paris since 1880 after his studies at the University of Odessa. Entrusted on several occasions with missions…

Fernand Halphen is a French composer born in Paris on February 18, 1872, student of Massenet, Fauré, and André Gedalge. He obtained in 1895 the first accessit for fugue at the Conservatory and, in…

Georges-Henri Halphen is a French officer and mathematician born in Rouen on October 30, 1844 and died in Versailles on May 21, 1889. Trained at the École polytechnique then at the École de Metz, he…

Joseph Haltern is one of the Meassefim, died in Berlin on September 5, 1818 (1817 according to Philippson), author of Esther, a Hebrew adaptation of Racine's drama of the same name.

C. H. Hamberger is a physician from Leipzig who died on March 2, 1847 at an advanced age. He translates into German the Dizionario Storico degli Autori Ebrei of G. B. de Rossi under the title…

Oscar Hammerstein is an American impresario born in Berlin on May 8, 1848, who emigrated to America in March 1863 and settled in New York, where he first worked in cigar manufacturing before becoming…

Agronomist and Zionist feminist, founder of agricultural schools for girls in Palestine.

Israeli writer

Emmanuel Hannaux is a French sculptor born in Metz in 1855, trained at the industrial school of Strasbourg and then, after returning to Metz at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, at the…

talmudiste israélien

rabbi (female)

(died 1935)

German physician

Born in Berlin, son of a wealthy Jewish banker, writer and musician. His first poems appeared in 1911 in the journals Pan, Der Sturm and Die Bücherei Maiandros, making him an early representative of…

Austro-American jurist

German art historian (1871–1938)

Heinrich Harburger is a German jurist born in Bayreuth, Bavaria, on 2 October 1851, doctor of law from the University of Munich. Admitted to the bar, he became privatdocent in 1878, then assistant…

Maximilian Harden, born Witkowski, is a German publicist born in Berlin on October 20, 1861, converted to Christianity in childhood. Known for his political and social articles signed "Apostata",…

Albert Harkavy (Abraham Yakovlevitch) was a Russian orientalist and historian born in Novogroudok, in the Minsk region, on October 27, 1839, son of a wealthy merchant and Talmudist. Trained at the…

Henry Harland, under the pseudonym of Sydney Luska, is an American writer born in Saint Petersburg in March 1861, trained at the College of the City of New York and at Harvard. Employed at the office…

Australian town planner (1883-1980)

Born in Manchester in a wealthy Jewish family (father a cotton merchant, prominent leader of the Orthodox and Liberal Jewish communities). Professor of political science at the London School of…

David Harris is an English soldier and mine director born in London in 1852, arrived at the diamond mines of Kimberley around 1873, where he makes his fortune. Officer of the Diamond Fields Horse…

Mark Harris is an English surveyor and soldier born March 15, 1869 and killed in combat in Betchuanaland on April 6, 1897, son of Ephraim Harris, director of the Jewish school in Manchester. Employed…

Maurice Henry Harris is an American rabbi born on November 9, 1859 in London, educated in London and at Columbia College in New York, from which he graduated in 1887, and at the Emanu-El theological…

Sir Augustus Glossop Harris is an English actor, dramatic author and theater director born in Paris in 1852 and died in Folkestone on June 22, 1896. Trained in Paris and Hanover, he made his stage…

Daniel Harrwitz is a German chess master born in 1823 in Breslau and died on January 9, 1884 in Bolzano, in the Tyrol, trained by Anderssen. His career began in Paris in 1845; he then defeated…

art collector (1879-1932)

American religious and community leader, a powerful orator, a respected religious educator, and a prominent Conservative rabbi (1899-1981)

Hungarian-American magician (1874–1926)

Yiddish and Hebrew dramatist born in Galicia, performed at the Yiddish Art Theatre.

Russian-born American rabbi, kabbalist and philosopher

Emanuel B. Hart is a member of the American Congress born in New York on October 29, 1809 and died on August 29, 1897. A Jacksonian Democrat active from the turbulent election of 1832, he is elected…

Ernest Abraham Hart is an English physician and editor born in London in 1836 and died in that city on January 7, 1898, trained at St George's Hospital, member of the Royal College of Surgeons in…

Henry John Hart is an Australian magistrate born in New York on May 7, 1820 and died in 1884, educated at Columbia College, left for Sydney in 1839 then settled in Melbourne in 1841. Commissioner of…

Sir Israel Hart is a former mayor of Leicester, born in 1835, president of the clothing company Hart and Levy. Elected to the Leicester municipal council in 1874, he acceded to the aldermanic council…

Solomon Alexander Hart is a painter and librarian of the Royal Academy of London, born in Plymouth in April 1806 and died in London on June 11, 1881. Entered as a student at the Royal Academy in…

Moritz Hartmann is an Austrian poet born in Příbram, Bohemia, in October 1821, and died in Oberdöbling, near Vienna, May 13, 1872. After studies in Prague and Vienna, he settled in Vienna in 1842,…

Cécile Hartog is an English composer and pianist born in London, trained under C. K. Salaman then at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as well as with Cowen, Bargiel, Beringer and Klindworth. She…

Édouard de Hartog is a Dutch composer born in Amsterdam on August 15, 1826, trained under Bartelmann, Döhler, Dulcken and Hoch, then Elwart and Litolff. Settled in Paris in 1852 as a piano and…

Lévi de Hartog is a Dutch jurist born in Gorinchem on 6 November 1835, doctor of law from Leiden in 1859. Teaching general history and politics in Haarlem from 1865 and then in Utrecht in 1866, he…

Marion Hartog, née Moss, is an English writer born in Portsea October 22, 1821, fifth daughter of Joseph Moss. She published from 1838, with her sister Célia, a collection of poems, Early Efforts,…

Numa Edward Hartog is the first Jewish senior wrangler of Cambridge, born in London on 20 May 1846 and died on 19 June 1871. After obtaining in 1862 the Jews' commemorative scholarship at University…

Philip Joseph Hartog is an English chemist and pedagogue born in London on 2 March 1864, educated at Owens College, Manchester, and then at the universities of Paris and Heidelberg. He works under…

Abraham Frans Karel Hartogh is a Dutch jurist and deputy born in Amsterdam on December 29, 1844 and died in The Hague on February 13, 1901, doctor of law from Leiden in 1869. Influential lawyer of…

Anton Hartvigson is a Danish pianist born in Aarhus, in Jutland, on October 16, 1845, brother of Frits Hartvigson. Trained by Neupert and Tausig, he performs in Copenhagen before settling in London,…

Frits Hartvigson is a Danish pianist born in Grenå, in Jutland, on May 31, 1841, trained first by his mother and by Anton Rée, then, from 1859, by Hans von Bülow in Berlin. He makes his first public…

Son of Joseph Derenbourg, trained in Hebrew, Arabic, and Semitic languages. He held the chair of Islam and the religions of Arabia at the École des hautes études and directed the oriental collection…

German rabbi

Joseph ibn Ḥason is a Talmudist, author of the Sefer Bet ha-Melek, a commentary on Maimonides' Mishné Torah, accompanied by responsa on the three other parts of the Shulḥan Arukh and novellae on the…

Simon Hassler is an American musician born in Bavaria on July 25, 1832 and died in Philadelphia on January 25, 1901, son of musician Henry Hassler, whose family emigrated to the United States in…

Marcus Hast is a London cantor and composer born in Warsaw in 1840. Having gone to study music in Germany in 1864, he is appointed cantor of the principal orthodox synagogue in Breslau, before…

Ignaz Hatsek is a Hungarian cartographer and engraver born on April 7, 1828 in Olomouc. A honvéd artillery lieutenant in 1848 and 1849, he became in 1851 cartographer of Hungary's state topographic…

Carl Frankl Hauser is an American humorist and writer born December 27, 1847 in Jánosháza, Hungary. After early work at the Stadttheater in Vienna from 1872 and an engagement with the troupe of the…

Philipp Hauser is a Hungarian physician and medical author born in Nádasd, Hungary, on April 2, 1832, who began medical studies in 1852 in Vienna, Paris and Berne, where he obtained his doctorate in…

David Haussmann is a German physician born in Ratibor, in Silesia, on July 22, 1839, and died in Berlin on May 26, 1903, trained at the universities of Breslau and Berlin, where he obtained his…

Adolf Havas is a Hungarian dermatologist born in Szentgál, Hungary, on February 14, 1854, trained in Veszprém, Budapest and Vienna, Doctor of Medicine in 1880. Head of the Department of Skin and…

Armand-Lazare Hayem is a French writer born in Paris on July 24, 1845 and died in that city in 1889, son of Simon Hayem. Ardent defender of republican ideas then adherent of Proudhon's doctrines, he…

Charles Hayem is a French collector and patron born in Paris in 1839 and died in that city on May 13, 1902, eldest son of Simon Hayem, married to the daughter of Adolphe Franck. His donation of…

Georges Hayem is a French physician born in Paris on November 25, 1841, son of Simon Hayem, who obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1868 and became agrégé of the Faculty of Paris. Professor of…

19th-century Sephardic rabbi

Ḥayyim ben Salomon is a Judeo-Polish preacher born in Wilna and died in that city in December 1804 (perhaps 1794), at an advanced age. Son of R. Salomon ben Ḥayyim, who died in 1766, dayyan and…

Rabbi and Hasidic kabbalist, disciple of Israël Ba'al Shem Tov, died in Jerusalem in 1813, Ḥayyim ben Salomon of Mohilev served as rabbi in five cities, including Mohilev and Czernowitz, before…

Ḥayyim ben Tobiah is a Russian rabbi of the 18th and 19th centuries, disciple of Elijah of Vilna, settled in Safed. In a letter dated 1810, he exhorts the Jews of Russia to support the students of…

Ḥayyim (Haïm) Benchimol, of Tangier, son of Abraham Benchimol — dragoman of the French consulate, the host of Eugène Delacroix in 1832 — and of Saada Sicsu, whom the painter depicted that year with…

Yemenite Jewish rabbi and author of a travel account

Ḥayyim Jacob ben Juda Löb Sloutzki is a Russian rabbinical scholar active in the first half of the nineteenth century, author of Niṭe'e Na'amanim, edition of the Midrash Konen accompanied by a double…

Russian writer and rabbi (1843–1890)

German rabbi

Born in Aleppo, son of R. Shaul Ezra ha-Kohen Dweck (Grand Rabbi of Aleppo). He went up to the Land of Israel in 1890 with a group of rabbis from Aleppo, became one of the figures of the kabbalistic…

Emanuel Hecht is a German pedagogue born in 1821 in Nordheim, Bavaria, and died on February 25, 1862 in Hoppstädten, in Birkenfeld-Oldenbourg. Graduate in 1842 of the Royal Normal School of…

Ferdinand Heckscher is a German actor born in Berlin in 1806 and died in Sondershausen on 28 February 1891. Endowed with a fine bass voice, he begins as a singer before abandoning music in 1833 to…

Physicist, one of three women to obtain the habilitation in physics in Germany before 1939.

Philip Heidenheim is a German rabbi and pedagogue born in Bleicherode on June 14, 1814. Called as a teacher in Sondershausen in 1834, he succeeds I. Wolffson as director and preacher in 1837, then…

Ferdinand Heilbuth is a French painter born in Hamburg in 1826 and died on November 19, 1889 in Paris. He exhibited at annual salons from 1853 and distinguished himself notably as a portraitist, with…

Angelo Heilprin is an American naturalist, geologist and traveler, son of Michael Heilprin, born on March 31, 1853 in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary, taken by his father to the United States in 1856.…

Louis Heilprin is an American encyclopedist, son of Michael Heilprin, born in Miskolcz, in Hungary, on July 2, 1851, emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1856. He collaborates on the…

Michael Heilprin is a Polish-American scholar, author and philanthropist born in Piotrków, in Russian Poland, on February 23, 1823, and died in Summit, New Jersey, on May 10, 1888, son of Phinehas…

Phinehas Mendel Heilprin is a Polish Hebraist born in Lublin in November 1801 and died in Washington on January 30, 1863. A cloth and wool merchant in Piotrków, he reinstalled himself in 1842 in…

Michael Heim is an Austrian jurist born on August 18, 1852 in Jakosič, Slavonia. After studying law in Vienna from 1871, he became deputy royal prosecutor in Essegg in 1883, district judge in…

Gustav Heine, baron von Geldern, is an Austrian publicist born on June 18, 1812 in Düsseldorf and died on November 15, 1886 in Vienna, brother of Heinrich Heine. After agriculture, commerce and the…

Maximilian Heine is a German physician, younger brother of Heinrich Heine, born in Düsseldorf (1805 according to Embden, 1807 according to Strodtmann) and died in Berlin on November 6, 1879. Trained…

Sabine Heinefetter is a German opera soprano born on August 19, 1809 in Mainz and died insane on February 18, 1872 in Illenau, Baden. A traveling harpist noticed by a musician from Frankfurt, she…

German rabbi

Heinrich Heinemann is a German actor born in Bischofsburg, East Prussia, on September 15, 1842. Graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin, he made his stage debut in Breslau in 1864,…

Romanian Rabbi (1877-1958)

Austrian physician and dermatologist

Czech architect

Hungarian rabbi

German historian, author of the monumental eleven-volume History of the Jews, the first great modern synthesis. He was a central figure of the science of Judaism.

Hungarian religious man

Major German poet and essayist of Jewish origin, author of the Book of Songs. His work combines romantic lyricism with critical irony.

German physicist of the 19th century

German classical philologist and high school teacher

Jewish merchant founder in 1878 of the Uhlfelder department store in Munich, philanthropist (soup kitchen during World War I, support for an orphanage) recognized as "Geheimer Kommerzienrat" in 1924.

Polish author

Moritz Heitler is an Austrian physician born in Korompa, Hungary, on March 21, 1847, doctor of medicine from the University of Vienna in 1871. Assistant at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna from…

Anna Held is a French actress born on September 19, 1880 in Paris, trained in Fontainebleau. She made her debut in Miss Helyett at the Folies Manguy in Paris on September 19, 1895, distinguished…

Psychoanalyst, first to specialize in the psychology of women.

Isidor Heller is an Austrian writer born on May 5, 1816 in Jung-Bunzlau, Bohemia, and died in Arco, Tyrol, on December 19, 1879. Destined for the rabbinate, he enlisted in 1837 in the French Foreign…

Jehiel ben Aaron Heller is a Russian rabbi born in Koïdanovo, in the governorate of Minsk, in 1814, and died in Plungė, in the governorate of Kovno, on November 14, 1861, a descendant of rabbi…

Joshua ben Aaron Heller is a Russian rabbi and preacher born in 1814 and died in Telšiai, in the province of Kovno, on June 2, 1880. Preacher in Grodno for several years, he became chief rabbi of…

Seligmann Heller is an Austrian poet and journalist born in Roudnice, Bohemia, on July 8, 1831, and died in Vienna on January 8, 1890. He teaches German in a commercial school in Prague from 1866,…

Stephen Heller is a Hungarian pianist and composer born in Budapest on May 15, 1815 and died in Paris on January 14, 1888. Intended for law, he turned very young to music, studied in Vienna under…

Ẓebi Hirsch Heller, called Herschele Ḥarif, is a Hungarian rabbi who died in Alt-Ofen on October 28, 1834. Rabbi of Bonyhád, he is called the same year to Alt-Ofen to succeed Moses Münz, but dies…

Franz Heltay is a Hungarian deputy born in Szentes on March 15, 1861, trained in law and political economy in Budapest. Journalist at the Nemzet then at the Ellenőr, he directed from 1887 the Nemzet…

Journalist and writer, wife of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, completed his dictionary.

Félix Hément is a French pedagogue born in Avignon on January 22, 1827 and died in Nanterre on October 5, 1891, primary school inspector of the Seine department, retired in 1886 with the title of…

Michel Hemerdinger is a French jurist born in Colmar, Alsace, on May 1, 1809, and died in Paris on June 22, 1880. Bachelor of letters from Strasbourg in 1829, he entered the rabbinical school of Metz…

Ernest Hendlé is a high-ranking French official born in Paris on February 15, 1844 and died on February 7, 1900, son-in-law of Albert Cohn. Brilliant lawyer at the court of appeal, he becomes…

Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg was a German biblical exegete born on October 20, 1802 in Fröndenberg, Westphalia, and died in Berlin on May 28, 1869, educated in theology and oriental languages at Bonn.…

Elise Henle is a German novelist and playwright born in Munich in 1830 and died in Frankfurt-am-Main on August 18, 1892, niece of the poet Henriette Ottenheimer. Married to industrialist Leopold Lévi…

Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle is a German anatomist born in Fürth, Bavaria, on July 19, 1809, and died in Göttingen on May 13, 1885, baptized with his parents in his native city. Trained in medicine…

Sigmund von Henle is a Bavarian deputy born on June 30, 1821 and died in Munich on October 9, 1901, descendant of Löb Berlin, district rabbi of Bamberg from 1789 onwards. Esteemed by King Louis II of…

Eduard Heinrich Hénoch is a German physician born in Berlin on June 16, 1820, doctor of medicine in 1843, specialist in childhood diseases. Assistant at the university dispensary for children until…

Brother of Ludwig. Director of the Paris branch of the Bank of Credit and Deposit of the Netherlands, he initiated with Edmond Joubert the merger resulting in January 1872 in the Bank of Paris and…

Italian banker, economist, journalist and art collector, naturalized French

German Jewish entrepreneur and art collector (1851-1932)

French rabbi

French chemist, pharmacologist and professor of toxicology, mainly known for being the first to isolate fluorine

French historian, professor at the faculty of letters of Rennes (1893–1920), specialist in the economic and social history of France, particularly the 18th century. He was one of the founders of the…

Amos Henriques is an English physician born in Jamaica in 1812 and died on June 5, 1880. Having gone to study medicine in London in 1830, then in Paris in 1833, and in Italy in 1834, he practices in…

David Quixano Henriques is an Anglo-Jewish reformer born on May 13, 1804 and died in London on March 6, 1870, son of Abraham Q. Henriques. Administrator of the City Bank and the Bank of Australasia,…

Jacob Quixano Henriques is an Antillean merchant born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, in 1811, and died in London on October 17, 1898, son of Abraham Q. Henriques and partner of his brother David in the…

Robert Martin Henriques is a Danish musician, composer, and writer born in Copenhagen on December 14, 1858, trained in violoncello by Bendix and Neruda and then, from 1877 onward, in Dresden under…

American rabbi

Descendant of a Frankfurt Jewish family established in London in the early 19th century (grandson, through his mother, of Mayer Amschel Rothschild). Lawyer (Inner Temple, 1863), Conservative MP,…

politician and former Democratic Governor of Illinois

American rabbi

American politician

American diplomat

American rabbi

American rabbi

Polish rabbi

Michael Henry is an English journalist and mechanic born in Kennington, London, on February 19, 1830, and died in London on June 15, 1875. Employed in Paris from 1844, he founds in 1847 the General…

Polish Jewish sculptor, active in Kraków and Paris, died during the Shoah.

Georg Henschel is a German composer and baritone born on February 18, 1850 in Breslau, trained under Wandelt and Schäffer and, from 1867 onwards, at the Leipzig Conservatory under Wenzel and…

Adolf Hepner is a German-American journalist born in Schmiegel, in the province of Posen, on November 24, 1846, trained at the rabbinical seminary of Breslau. Having become a socialist in 1868, he is…

London lawyer specializing in copyright law, editor of the Law Journal. Leading member of the English Hovevei Zion and founder of the English Zionist Federation (1899). He led the first Zionist…

American political figure

From the Anglo-Jewish Samuel family (Samuel Montagu bank). Minister (Home Secretary), he was the first High Commissioner of mandate Palestine (1920-1925) and leader of the Liberal Party (1931-1935).…

American Marxist philosopher and sociologist of German origin

Austrian Jewish publisher and refugee from Nazis (1899-1971)

American rabbi

Móric Herczeghy is a Hungarian physician and author born in Budapest on August 19, 1815 and died in Vienna on December 23, 1884. He studied medicine in Budapest and Vienna, took part in the 1848…

Manó Herczel de Szentpéteri is a Hungarian physician born in Szeged on July 1, 1861, trained successively in Szeged, Novi Sad, Budapest, Vienna, Strasbourg and Paris. Doctor of medicine in 1884, he…

American educator

New Zealand rabbi and philanthropist (1849–1930)

Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911

German businessman and father of Albert Einstein

German writer

Jewish German physician (1817–1884)

British rabbi

German-Jewish novelist and editor, a leading figure of the New Objectivity literary movement. Born in Pidvolochysk (Austro-Hungarian Empire) to a Jewish merchant family, he fled Germany in 1933,…

German musician

German orientalist (1825-1875)

docteur en philosophie, rabbin et journaliste allemand (1882–1954)

German internist (1868-1944)

German rabbi

German rabbi

Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, born in Elmshorn in 1885, doctorate at Göttingen in 1908 under David Hilbert whose successor he became in 1930. One of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century…

Ludimar Hermann is a German physiologist born in Berlin on October 21, 1838, doctorate in medicine from Berlin in 1859. He practices in his native city and becomes in 1865 a privat-docent at the…