XIXth century CE

German classical archaeologist (1898–1989)

Léon Herrmann is a French painter born in Paris on July 12, 1853, a student of the École des beaux-arts in Paris. He exhibited his first painting, A Bout d'Argument, at the Salon of 1875, followed in…

British jurist of Galician Jewish origin, holder of the Whewell Professorship of International Law at Cambridge (1938–1955) and later judge at the International Court of Justice (1955–1960). Founding…

Lord Farrer Herschell is an English politician and magistrate, Lord Chancellor of England, born in 1837 and died on March 1, 1899, son of the Reverend Ridley H. Herschell. Educated at University…

Ridley Haim Herschell is a missionary to the Jews born in Strzelno, in Prussian Poland, on April 7, 1807, and died in Brighton on April 14, 1864, son of Jewish parents, trained at the University of…

Physicist and chemist, pioneer of quantum mechanics and molecular physics.

Joseph Herman Hertz is an American rabbi born in Rebrin, in the county of Zemplén, Hungary, on September 25, 1872, trained at the College of the City of New York, Columbia University, and the Jewish…

Joseph Hertzberg was a Russian author born in Moghilev, on the Dniester, in the early nineteenth century, and died in that city in 1870. Mastering German, French and English in addition to Russian,…

Theodor Hertzka is an Austrian economist and journalist born on 13 July 1845 in Budapest, trained at the universities of Vienna and Budapest. Member of the editorial board of the Neue Freie Presse in…

Estella Dorothea Salomea Hertzveld is a Dutch poetess born in The Hague on July 14, 1837 and died in Arnhem on November 4, 1881, granddaughter of Chief Rabbi H. J. Hertzveld of Zwolle. Under the…

German artist

Cornelius Herz was a French electrician born in Besançon in 1848 and died in Bournemouth, England, on July 6, 1898, son of German immigrants. After studying medicine in Germany, he settled in Paris…

Henri Herz is an Austrian pianist born in Vienna on 6 January 1806 and died in Paris on 5 January 1888. Trained first by his father in Coblence then by Hünten, he entered in 1816 the Paris…

Jacob Herz is a German physician born in Bayreuth on February 2, 1816 and died in Erlangen on September 27, 1871, doctor of medicine from the University of Erlangen in 1839. He established himself as…

Leo Herzberg-Fränkel is an Austrian writer born in Brody, Galicia, on September 19, 1827. After a one-year stay in Bessarabia at seventeen, he publishes Bilder aus Russland und Bessarabien and…

Sigmund Herzberg-Fränkel is an Austrian historian born in Brody, Galicia, on March 7, 1857, son of Leo Herzberg-Fränkel. He studied law at the University of Vienna from 1874, then history at Leipzig,…

Grigori Markovitch Herzenstein was a Russian physician born in Saint Petersburg in 1851 and died in that city in 1899. Graduate of the Medico-Surgical Academy of Saint Petersburg in 1874, he became…

Solomon Markovitch Herzenstein is a Russian zoologist born in 1854 and died in 1894, graduate of natural sciences and mathematics from the University of Saint Petersburg. Appointed in 1880 curator of…

Albrecht Herzfeld is an Austrian actor born on June 7, 1840 in Vienna, son of Adolf Herzfeld. After training at the gymnasium of his native city and an apprenticeship in commerce, he abandoned, like…

Jacob Herzfeld is a German chemist born in Mülheim, near Cologne, on June 17, 1859, trained at the gymnasium and the higher technical school of Charlottenburg then at the University of Berlin, where…

Siegmund Herzl is an Austrian merchant and novelist born in Vienna on May 26, 1830 and died in that city on February 9, 1889. He publishes notably Liederbuch eines Dorfpoeten (1853), Lieder eines…

Jakob Herzog is an Austrian writer born in Misslitz, Moravia, on June 17, 1842, trained in Brünn, Vienna and Graz. Secretary of the Jewish community of Vienna for nearly two years, he directs from…

Moses Hess, called Moritz, is a Jewish socialist and nationalist born in Bonn on June 21, 1812 and died in Paris on April 6, 1875, buried in the Jewish cemetery of Cologne. Largely self-taught, he…

Albert Hessberg is an American lawyer born in Albany, New York, on 13 December 1856. Trained in the office of Rufus W. Peckham, future judge of the United States Supreme Court, he became his partner…

Joseph Hevesi is a Hungarian novelist and journalist born March 15, 1857, trained at the lyceum of Kecskemét and at the University of Budapest, and regarded as one of the most prominent novelists in…

Ludwig Hevesi is a Hungarian journalist and writer born on December 20, 1843 in Heves, Hungary. After studying medicine and classical philology in Budapest and Vienna, he became a journalist and…

Heinrich Heydemann was a German archaeologist born in Greifswald on August 28, 1842, and died in Halle on October 10, 1889, trained in classical philology and archaeology at the universities of…

Salomon Heydenfeldt is an American jurist born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1816, and died in San Francisco on September 15, 1890. Departing for Alabama at twenty-one, he is admitted to the bar…

Elias Heyman is a Swedish physician born in Göteborg in 1829 and died in 1889, trained at Lund and then at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He practices medicine in Göteborg from 1862 to 1878,…

Isaac H. Heymann is a Dutch cantor and composer born around 1834, son of Phinchas Heymann. After several tours in Hungary, he serves successively as cantor in Filehne, Graudenz and Gnesen before…

Karl Heymann is a German pianist born in Filehne, Posen, on October 6, 1853, son of Isaac H. Heymann. Trained at the Cologne Conservatory under Hiller, Gernsheim and Breuning, then in Berlin under…

Paul Heymann is a German laryngologist born in Pankow, near Berlin, in 1849, trained in medicine at Berlin and Heidelberg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1874. After an advanced training…

Isidor Hilberg is an Austrian philologist born on May 28, 1852 in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, then in Russia. Having moved to Vienna with his parents in 1856, he studied classical philology there under…

Mathematician, first woman appointed in mathematics at the University of Berlin.

Israël Hildesheimer is a German rabbi, leader of Orthodox Judaism, born in Halberstadt on May 20, 1820 and died in Berlin on July 12, 1899, son of R. Löb Glée Hildesheimer. Trained at the…

Hillel b. Zebi Hirsch Mileikovsky, known as Hillel Salauter, is a Russian rabbi born in Zaretché, a suburb of Vilna, in 1819, and died in Mstislavl, in the governorate of Moghilev, on June 1, 1899.…

Hebrew poet from America, professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Hungarian rabbi

Genealogist and historian born in Vilna, descendant of R. Saul Wahl Katzenellenbogen. He owed the first part of his name (« Maggid ») to his grandfather Phinehas, maggid (preacher) of Vilna, the…

Ukrainian rabbi

rabbi and author

Polish writer

Édouard Hiller is a German philologist, nephew of Ferdinand Hiller, born in Frankfurt am Main on 14 April 1844 and died in Halle on 7 March 1891. Educated at the universities of Bonn and Göttingen,…

Ferdinand Hiller is a German composer and music writer born in Frankfurt am Main on October 24, 1811 and died in Cologne on May 10, 1885. Child prodigy trained by Hofmann, Aloys Schmitt and…

Yiddish memoirist of Galicia, murdered at Belzec.

Croatian rabbi

Hungarian rabbi

Romanian rabbi

German journalist

rabbin

Father of Konstantin, described as a Hebrew-language poet, documented founding member of the Zhitomirsky Jewish family in Ukraine (Bakhmout, Mariupol).

Albert Hirsch is an Austrian playwright born in Vienna on June 29, 1841. First a schoolteacher, he turns to the stage, notably at the variety theater of the Josefstadt, before devoting himself to…

Alphonse Hirsch is a French painter born in Paris in 1843 and died in that city on July 15, 1884, student of Meissonier and Bonnat, first a draftsman and engraver before establishing himself notably…

August Hirsch is a German physician and medical historian born in Danzig on October 4, 1817 and died in Berlin on January 28, 1894. After a few years in commerce, he undertook medical studies in…

Baron Maurice de Hirsch is a German philanthropist born in Munich on December 9, 1831 and died near Érsekújvár, in Hungary, on April 21, 1896, eldest son of Joseph von Hirsch and grandson of Jacob…

Clara de Hirsch, Baroness de Hirsch-Gereuth, is the wife of Baron Maurice de Hirsch, born in Antwerp on 13 June 1833 and died in Paris on 1 April 1899, niece through her mother of the president of…

David Hirsch is a German teacher for the deaf-mute born in Müntz, in the Rhineland Palatinate, on May 23, 1813, and died in Rotterdam on February 2, 1895. Trained at institutes for the deaf-mute in…

Fischl Hirsch is a Hebrew-specialized bookseller who died in Berlin on June 5, 1899. Settled around 1860 in Halberstadt, where he founded a Jewish printing and publishing enterprise before devoting…

Franz Arnold Hirsch is an Austrian dramatist and writer born in Horitz, Bohemia, on June 15, 1815, and died in Vienna on November 24, 1896. After studying medicine at the University of Vienna, he…

Gaston Hirsch is a French dramatic author born in Metz in 1830. Among his principal plays are La Marquise des Rues, to music by Hervé (1879), L'Affaire de Viroflay and Fanfreluche (1883), Fla-Fla…

Jenny Hirsch is a German writer and women's rights activist born on 25 November 1829 in Zerbst, Anhalt, and died on 9 March 1902 in Berlin. After the death of her parents, she taught in her native…

Joseph von Hirsch is a German banker, father of Maurice de Hirsch, born on July 2, 1805 in Würzburg and died on December 9, 1885 in Munich. After his studies, he entered the paternal bank and took…

Salomon Hirsch is an American merchant, diplomat and politician, son of Samson Hirsch and Ella Kuhn, born in Württemberg on 25 March 1839. Leaving for the United States at fifteen years of age, he…

Samuel Hirsch is an American rabbi born in Thalfang, near Trier, in Rhenish Prussia, on June 8, 1815, and died in Chicago on May 14, 1889, trained at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Leipzig.…

Siegfried Hirsch is a German historian born in Berlin on November 5, 1816 and died in Paris on September 11, 1860, cousin of Theodor Hirsch. He studies history at the universities of Berlin and…

Theodor Hirsch is a German historian born on December 17, 1806 in Altschottland, near Danzig, and died on February 17, 1881. Trained in theology, history and geography in Berlin after converting to…

Ernst Hirschberg is a German statistician born 8 March 1859 in Königsberg, in East Prussia. Trained in his native city, where he obtained his diploma in 1882, he is employed at the Statistical Bureau…

Count of Oscarre born in 1838, Italian diplomat from the Trieste branch of the illustrious Jewish family Minerbi.

Isaac M. Hirschensohn is a talmudist and bibliophile of Jerusalem born in Pinsk, in the government of Minsk, Russia, in 1844. At the age of three, he accompanied his father, Jacob Mordekhaï…

Hartwig Hirschfeld is an English orientalist born in Thorn, Prussia, trained in Posen and then at the universities of Berlin and Strasbourg, and finally in Paris under Derenbourg. In 1887, he edits…

Ludwik Maurycy Hirschfeld is a Polish anatomist born in Nadarzyn, in the Government of Warsaw, in 1816, and died in Warsaw in 1876. Trained in the Talmud in his childhood, he goes to Berlin at…

Otto Hirschfeld is a German historian, epigrapher and archaeologist born on March 16, 1843 in Königsberg, Prussia. Trained in philology and history at the universities of Königsberg and Bonn, where…

Robert Hirschfeld is an Austrian writer on music born on September 17, 1857 in Moravia, educated at the universities of Breslau and Vienna as well as at the Conservatory of the latter city, where he…

Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder is an American physician born in Oakland, California, on September 8, 1854, trained in San Francisco then at the universities of Würzburg, Berlin, Vienna and Leipzig,…

Salomon Hirschfelder is a German genre painter born on May 16, 1832 in Dettensee, near Horb on the Neckar, and died in Munich on May 10, 1903. Student of the Academy of Munich, where he settled in…

Hermann Hirschfeldt is a German physician born in Neustettin on July 30, 1825 and died in Colberg on June 17, 1885, doctor of medicine from Greifswald in 1852. After two years of practice in…

Adolf Hirschl is a Hungarian painter born in Temesvár, Hungary, on January 31, 1860. Trained from 1874 to 1882 at the Vienna Academy, where he won a traveling fellowship from 1882 to 1884, he settled…

Hungarian ophthalmologist, born in Pressburg in 1823 and died in Budapest on November 11, 1891. Trained in Vienna and then established in Budapest after two years of practice in Paris, he acquired a…

Russian ophthalmologist born in Goldingen, Courland, in 1839. Trained at the University of Kharkov, he worked in the laboratories of Graefe, Helmholtz, Jäger, Knapp and Pagenstecher, before being…

French composer born in Saint-Mandé on April 30, 1873, student of André Gedalge and then, for two years, of Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire. He is the author of an oratorio, « Ahasuerus »,…

Danish industrialist and art collector born in Copenhagen on 7 February 1836, son of Abraham Marcus Hirschsprung, founder in 1826 of one of the largest tobacco factories in Denmark, of which he…

Polish painter born in Łódź in 1866, trained at the Academy of Cracow from 1881 to 1885 and then in Munich (1885-89). He exhibits « Esther and Haman » in Paris, then, returning to Cracow in 1891, «…

German theologian born in Hauingen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, on 23 June 1807, died in Heidelberg on 22 January 1875. Trained under Gesenius in Halle and Ewald in Göttingen, he taught in…

Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) of Aleppo from 1908 to 1926, then member of the council of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem.

German rabbi born in 1810 in Hürben, Bavaria, died in Frankfurt-am-Main on 8 December 1888. Teacher and preacher in Heddernheim then in Wiesbaden, then rabbi in Langenschwalbach and Ems, he exercised…

Austrian writer born in Prague on November 27, 1815, died in Vienna on October 22, 1887. He devoted much of his life to gathering documents on the history of the Jews of Prague, material published by…

German philologist and archaeologist born on August 18, 1803 in Cassel, died around 1843. He studied philology and archaeology at the University of Marburg from 1821, continued his studies in…

Journalist and chess chronicler born in 1842 in Budapest. He settled in France around 1866, then in London in 1870, where he became one of the great analysts of chess and participated in the…

American editor and community activist born in Philadelphia on January 3, 1864, educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He…

Rector of the rabbinical seminary in Berlin, born in Verbó, in Hungary, on November 24, 1843. After studying philosophy, history, and Oriental languages in Vienna and Berlin, sanctioned by a…

Converted Englishman to Christianity, he lived in London in the nineteenth century. He published in 1834 "Songs of Zion", a collection of English and German hymns translated into Hebrew, as well as…

Landowner and Hungarian writer born in Budapest on 19 August 1822. Destined for commerce, he took over the family factory in 1842 before retiring about thirty years later to his estate at Alag, where…

Polish scholar and writer born in Wistiniecz, government of Suwałki, in 1808, died in Paris on December 20, 1878. Trained in Königsberg, he was an interpreter at the court of Suwałki from 1833, then…

Associate professor of political economy and director of the department of political economy at Johns Hopkins University, born in Baltimore on July 23, 1871, where he obtained his bachelor's degree…

German dentist born in Leobschütz on February 4, 1833, died in Halle on March 14, 1897. Graduated in medicine in 1856 after studies in Würzburg and Breslau, he practiced for nine years in South…

Austrian historian of literature born in Slavaten, Moravia, on June 21, 1860, doctor of philosophy in 1888. Attached since 1891 to the library of the University of Vienna, he is the author of a…

French rabbi

Austrian actress born in Vienna in 1871, prize-winner at the Vienna Conservatory. She made her debut in 1889 at the Hoftheater in Carlsruhe in the role of Jane Eyre, joined in 1890 the Deutsche…

Austrian deputy born in Rzeszów, Austrian Galicia, on December 2, 1824, died on October 24, 1880. Doctor of law trained in Lemberg, he sat on the municipal and communal councils there and defended…

Russian-Jewish financier (1833-1909)

Hungarian painter born in 1837 in Rozgony, near Kaschau. Trained by Roth until 1850, then for seven years at the Vienna Academy under Geiger, Meyer and Wurzinger, he stayed from 1860 onwards in…

Yiddish dramatist born on the 7th of Adar 1844 in Stanislau, Galicia. After a traditional Jewish education and studies in German, he founded a Jewish theater in Bucharest in 1876 and thereafter…

Chess player and author born in 1809 in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, died in London in 1885. Student of Mendheim in Berlin, he was one of the "Pleiades," the seven leaders of the new Berlin school…

Rabbi of Frankfurt-on-the-Main, died in that city on September 8, 1817. He had succeeded his father in the rabbinate of Frankfurt in 1805. He is the author of « Maḥaneh Lewi », halakhic novellæ…

Croatian rabbi

American statistician born in Wilna, Russia, on April 27, 1860, educated at the gymnasium of Minsk and at the University of Saint Petersburg. Involved in nihilist propaganda, he was arrested in 1879,…

American financier born in Zeckendorf, in Bavaria, on 8 December 1832, died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 8 February 1892. A commercial employee in Cincinnati and other cities after his arrival in…

American preacher born in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, in Hungary, on 18 September 1830, died in New York on 10 October 1884, descendant of the Jaffe family. He fought as a « Honvéd » officer during the…

Czech Jewish gallery owner, emigrated to USA (1889-1961)

holocaust victim, b. 1879-01-02

German historian

Polish-Jewish mathematician, co-founder of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known for the Banach–Steinhaus theorem (uniform boundedness principle) and for discovering Stefan Banach.

German mathematician born on March 26, 1859 in Hildesheim, trained in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig. He became privatdozent at Göttingen in 1882, adjunct professor at the University of Königsberg in…

Russian economist and journalist born around 1864 in Gorki, in the Moghilev province. Son of a religion professor who intended him for the rabbinate, he turned toward modern studies and went around…

Russian scholar born in 1815, died in Wilna on October 21, 1852. Private tutor in Wilna for many years then teacher in a public school in Riga, he was then appointed by the government director of the…

Russian preacher from Krozh, in the government of Kovno, died in Vilna on October 25, 1820. Close to Elijah of Vilna, whose sons he tutored, he became "maggid", preacher of Vilna, a position he held…

Hebraist writer born in Wilna, died in Krakow in 1812. Still young, he went to Buczacz, Galicia, where he began his « Sefer ha-Berit », which he was able to complete thanks to the patronage of…

German Orientalist and explorer born on 25 February 1867 in Krotoschin, Prussia. Entered the University of Berlin in 1885, obtained his doctorate at Leipzig in 1889, and became in 1891 lecturer in…

Beni-Israel physician died on March 20, 1897, son of Hacem Samuel, president of the Beni-Israel school in Bombay. After obtaining his license in medicine and surgery, he practiced in Bombay and…

American lawyer born in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 4, 1806, of English parents, died in New Orleans in 1875. Trained in Charleston and in New Orleans, where he went in 1828 with Judah P.…

American rabbi

Yiddish poet of the Di Yunge group, author of the epic « Kentucky ».

Romanian rabbi

Jewish Spanish grammarian, active in the 11th and 12th centuries, probably in Barcelona. Pupil of the grammarian Levi ibn Tabban of Saragossa and contemporary of Judah ha-Levi and Moses ibn Ezra, who…

German writer

Born in Odessa in 1899, major figure of Yiddish theater, director of troupes (including the Jewish State Theater of Poland). She translated and adapted dozens of plays into Yiddish, wrote two…

Yiddish poetess of Montreal, animator of Canadian literary circles.

Mathematician, pioneer of programming; co-designed the C-10 language for the UNIVAC I.

Russian dancer

German-Austrian salonnière (1824-1899)

Austrian rabbi born on 28 February 1825 in Lemberg and died in Czernowitz on 26 March 1892. Trained at the rabbinical seminary in Padua under S. D. Luzzatto and Della Torre (graduated in 1849), he…

Spanish banker (1827–1895)

Polish photographer

Russian statesman born in 1832, one of the principal architects of reactionary anti-Jewish legislation in the last quarter of the 19th century and author of the « May Laws ». After the assassination…

Austrian-Jewish journalist and politician of Bohemian origin, founder of Die Grenzboten and long-serving president of the Jewish community of Vienna.

Austrian rabbi

Austro-Hungarian Rabbi

Croatian businessman

Russian physicist

Russian historian (1867–1941)

American rabbi and writer born on January 2, 1850 in Choinick, in the Minsk governorship (Russia), in a Hasidic family. Trained at the heder and then at the yeshiva of Vietka, he completed his…

Hungarian rabbi.

American rabbi born in 1814 in Kolin, in Bohemia, in a family of Talmudists, and died near Cincinnati (Ohio) on June 22, 1871. Trained at the school of Moses Sofer in Pressburg and at the rabbinical…

German photographer

Jewish publisher born in Vilna. He founded a printing house in Saint Petersburg in 1880, then in 1890 the Brockhaus-Efron publishing house with German publisher F. Brockhaus. His house published the…

Born Iehiel-Leyb (Ilya) Faynzilberg in Odessa in 1897 in a Jewish family. With Evgueni Petrov, he co-wrote the satirical novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Golden Calf (1931), featuring the con…

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5575 of the Hebrew era (1815). Son of Eliahu. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 103-4.

Austrian Hebrew poet born in Zloczow, Galicia, in 1856. After a Talmudic education, he led an itinerant life between Vienna, Constantinople, and Palestine alongside Laurence Oliphant, then England…

Hungarian rabbi, botanist (1854-1944)

Romanian rabbi

Born in Thessalonica in an old family of Sephardic rabbis, he studied in Jena, Berlin and Paris. Established in Geneva from 1904, he taught the history of European philosophy until his death. Close…

Born in Łódź, he joined the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1923 and became head of the Hebrew section. Author of major studies in Jewish bibliography, ethnography, folklore,…

Israeli rabbi

Chief rabbi of Damascus, author of the collection of responsa Penei Yizhak in six volumes.

Russian Talmudist, born in Volozhin, in the Wilna district, and died in Ivenets, in the Minsk district, on 16 June 1849. A renowned Talmudist, he succeeded his father as head of the yeshiva of…

Bibliographer and poet of Vilna, author of the Otzar ha-Sefarim.

Rabbi in Tykocin and then in Suwałki, Poland, active in the first half of the 19th century. He is the author of the "Bet Yiẓḥaḳ", a ritual work in two parts (Sudzilkow, 1836), of the "Seder Zemanim"…

French rabbi

Eminent scholar of Tunis, author of Oholei Yitzhak (novellae and halakha).

German Legal philosopher, Rabbi and anti-zionist (1883-1946)

Isaac Carasso, Sephardic physician born in Salonika (nephew of Emmanuel Carasso), launched yogurt production under the Danone brand in Barcelona in 1919. His son Daniel developed the company in…

Grandson of Abraham-Behor, celebrated for his collection of Impressionist paintings (Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Degas) bequeathed to the Louvre, and for his love of music.

Short-story writer and translator, son-in-law of Sholem Aleichem whose work he translated.

Austrian Talmudist and historian (1815 – 1905)

Jewish historian, translator and philosopher, professor at Gratz College then tenured professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (1922). Trained notably under Sabato Morais. His major…

Australian lawyer, politician and judge (1855-1948)

Born in Smarhon, of Lithuanian Jewish origin, initially trained in rabbinic studies, he turned to sculpture at nearly 40 years of age, studying in Vilna then Moscow. Regarded in the 1920s-30s as one…

Belarusian rabbi

Komarna Rebbi

Lviv rabbi, Talmudist

American Rabbi and newspaper editor (1806–1868)

French lexicographer and rabbi

Born Isak Löbl Pulvermacher on March 15, 1815 in Breslau into a Jewish family, trained at the Vienna Technical School, settled in London around 1850. Inventor of the « Pulvermacher hydro-electric…

American rabbi

Yiddish short-story writer, author of « A Shtetl », master of naturalism.

Born in Algiers, son of David Raphaël Morali. Rabbi-dayan and dominant rabbinical authority of the first half of the 20th century in Algiers; founder of a Hebrew school and then of the Talmud Torah…

maggid (Jewish preacher)

Younger brother of Émile, also a Saint-Simonian from Bordeaux; together they directed the Crédit Mobilier and were among the first to deploy railway technology in France, applying the Saint-Simonian…

Yiddish prose writer connected to the Di Yunge group in New York.

Jewish teacher, journalist and philosopher (1831-1902)

rabbi, industrialist and French archivist, co-founder of the CDJC

rabbi

American political figure

French pedagogue and writer born March 10, 1828 in Niederhomburg, near Sarreguemines, in Lorraine. Trained at the normal school in Colmar (1844-47), he taught in several Jewish schools in Alsace then…

Promoter of the Mersey tunnel, near Liverpool, born in Chatham (England) in 1812 and died in London on November 22, 1886. Established young in London, he ran a major military supplies firm then, in…

American rabbi, professor and editor, born in New York on August 30, 1852. A graduate of the University of New York (bachelor's degree 1871, master's degree 1873, doctorate 1878) and of the…

Australian statesman and jurist, born in Melbourne on August 6, 1855, educated at the University of Melbourne and admitted to the Victoria bar in 1880. Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1892 to…

American lawyer born in New York on 8 May 1841, admitted to the bar in 1862 and appointed judge of the Marine Court of New York in 1880. Very engaged in the municipal life of New York, he contributed…

African traveler born in England in 1808, died after 1840. Departed in 1822 for Saint Helena, he joined in 1825 a British expedition to Natal Bay, where he spent seven years among the Zulus, met King…

English actress and singer, born in London on 26 June 1828 and died in that city on 21 April 1877. Trained by her father, actor and singer John Isaacs, she made her stage debut on 17 March 1835, took…

American calendar expert born in 1825 in Raczek, Poland, trained under Judah Bacharach and Moses Leib of Kutno, emigrated to New York on June 30, 1847. Principal of the Talmud Torah of New York in…

Rabbi and journalist born in Leeuwarden, Holland, on January 4, 1804, and died in New York on May 19, 1878. After directing the old Neweh Ẓedeḳ (now the Jewish hospital and orphanage of West Norwood,…

Former Lord Mayor of London, born in that city on August 15, 1830. He devoted a quarter of a century to the interests of the city, advocating for the improvement of housing for the poor and…

Israeli rabbi