XIXth century CE

German pianist and composer, born August 23, 1854 in Breslau. Trained in Dresden then Berlin, he gave concerts and undertook in 1873 a successful tour in Germany, Russia, and France; an arm injury…

Karaite Egyptian Jewish lawyer, journalist, linguist, poet, essayist, scientific editor and translator

Described as the most eminent Karaite personality in Egypt at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. Lawyer graduated from the Faculty of Law of Cairo (1886), appointed to head a magistracy chamber by…

Yiddish poet and dramatist, founder of the Yung-yidish group in Łódź.

Born in Smorgon (today Smarhon, Belarus), he studied at the Volozhin yeshiva and became one of the great Yiddish modernists. He taught Yiddish literature in Vilna, settled in Minsk under the Soviet…

Modernist Yiddish poet, figure of the Di Yunge group in New York.

Hungarian rabbi

French novelist and dramatic critic, born in Paris on August 4, 1870, died in that city on December 1, 1902. Licensed in letters and law, he became dramatic critic for the "Revue d'Art Dramatique",…

German genre painter, born in Plesse (Silesia) on June 21, 1819, died in Munich in 1865. Trained at the Berlin Academy then, from 1838, at the Munich Academy under Cornelius, he worked from 1847 to…

Merchant, industrialist and American philanthropist, eldest son of Henry Muhr, born in Hürben (Bavaria) on April 19, 1845, died in Philadelphia on February 9, 1895. Vice-president of the Jewish…

Dayyan of Mattersdorf (Hungary), born October 3, 1836 in Nádasd, trained in the yeshivah of his father Ḥayyim Müller; appointed dayyan of Mattersdorf in 1860. He publishes "Birkat ha-Miẓwot" (Vienna,…

German philologist, born on January 14, 1803 in Gross-Glogau, died in the same city on May 3, 1871, cousin of Salomon Munk. Trained in Breslau and Berlin (1822-1825), favored disciple of August…

German physiologist, born in Posen on February 3, 1839, brother of Emmanuel Munk, trained in Berlin and Göttingen (doctorate 1859). Established as a physician in Berlin in 1860, he became associate…

German physiologist, born in Posen on May 20, 1852, died in Berlin on August 1, 1900, brother of Hermann Munk. Medical degree holder (1873), he settled in Berlin, became privat-docent of physiology…

French Orientalist, born in Gross-Glogau on May 14, 1803, died in Paris on February 5, 1867. Trained in the Talmud and then, from 1820, at the University of Berlin which he left without a diploma,…

Hungarian philologist and ethnologist, born in Nagyvárad on March 12, 1860, from a famous rabbinical family. Trained in Hungarian linguistics under Budenz, Vámbéry and Simonyi, he undertook from 1880…

American psychologist, born in Danzig on June 1, 1863. Doctorate in philosophy from Leipzig (1885) and in medicine from Heidelberg (1887), he became assistant professor of psychology at the…

Austrian writer, born on February 1, 1856 in Leipnik (Moravia), doctor of the University of Vienna (1877), who pursues his philosophical studies in Munich. He becomes in 1889 librarian of the Jewish…

Austrian writer, brother of Bernhard Münz, born in Leipnik (Moravia) on May 7, 1859, doctor of the University of Vienna (1883). After living successively in Rome (1885-88) then in Milan, Venice and…

Hungarian lawyer and journalist, born in Asszonyfa (county of Győr) on May 8, 1841, died in Budapest on April 30, 1902. After studying medicine then law, graduated from Budapest in 1866, he obtained…

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Died in 5577 of the Hebrew era (1817). Son of Davd. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-1.

Austrian Romance philologist, born in Split (Dalmatia) on 15 February 1835. First destined for medicine, he became lecturer in Italian at the University of Vienna in 1855, then associate professor of…

Rabbi of Agourai, 19th century. Mentioned in 5586 of the Hebrew era (1826). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-2.

English journalist, born in London in 1848, died in that same city on May 11, 1902. After beginnings in the clothing trade, he became in 1868 co-owner of the « Jewish Record », then joined the «…

American librarian, born in London on 18 February 1821, died in Cincinnati on 8 December 1899. Emigrated to New York in 1833 then settled in Cincinnati in 1837, he studied law first before becoming…

English physician and toxicologist, born in 1871 in Birmingham, died on January 21, 1901 in Pará, Brazil. Qualified in medicine in 1897, he studied under Ziegler at Fribourg, Koch in Berlin and…

Russian jurist, born in Korets (Volhynia) January 2, 1846, graduated from Jitomir gymnasium in 1867 then in law from Kiev University in 1871, subsequently settled in Saint Petersburg. After the…

Yiddish poet and critic, cofounder of the introspectivist movement In Zikh.

Ukrainian rabbi

Galician philosopher of the Haskalah, author of the Moreh Nevukhei ha-Zeman (Guide for the Perplexed of the Time). He applied the philosophy of history to the study of Judaism.

rabbi

Polish rabbi

rabbi

Russian poet, born in Saint Petersburg on December 26, 1862, died in Yalta on December 31, 1886. Son of a Jewish father who converted to Orthodoxy and a noble poetess mother, he pursued a military…

Lithuanian rabbi

Ashkenazi rabbi of Jaffa (1852–1902)

Hebrew poet born in Złoczów (Galicia, now Zolochiv, Ukraine) on December 27, 1856, died in New York on October 8, 1909. He wrote the poem Tikvatenu (« Our Hope »), which became the lyrics of…

Head of the famous yeshiva of Volozhin, author of the Haamek Davar commentary on the Torah. He trained generations of Lithuanian scholars.

Rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Radin; reputed Talmudist close to the Mussar movement.

Beni-Israel soldier, born in Bombay before 1830. Enlisted in the 25th Regiment of Light Infantry indigenous to Bombay in 1848, he became jemadar in 1868, subahdar in 1873 then subahdar-major in 1879;…

Beni-Israel soldier, born in Bombay around 1810. Enlisted in the 10th regiment of indigenous infantry in 1832, he served in Aden from 1840 to 1844, participated in the South Maratha war in 1844 and…

Born in Marrakech, he emigrated as a teenager to Jerusalem where he studied at the Sephardic Talmud Torah. Appointed in 1909 Rishon le-Zion (chief Sephardic rabbi / Hakham Bashi of Jerusalem)…

Preacher and philanthropist, born in 1811, died in Grodno on October 25, 1879. A great Talmudist, he preferred to occupy the humble position of sexton in the Hebrah Shas synagogue and live in…

founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress

Israeli politician

Yiddish dramatist and lexicographer, prolific author of radio plays.

Hungarian composer

Republican lawyer, law graduate of the Sorbonne (1855), secretary to Adolphe Crémieux. Member then vice-president of the Paris Municipal Council (1880–1887). One of the founders of the Alliance…

Hungarian writer born in Szent Miklós, in Liptau, on 16 March 1841, died in Baja on 25 July 1901. He studied in Baja and then in Berlin, where he was chosen as preacher in 1866, before being forced…

Austrian journalist born in Pohrlitz, Moravia, on December 25, 1834, educated in Vienna. He was stenographer to the Austrian Parliament and then parliamentary reporter for the « Presse », before…

Tunisian rabbi

Rabbi in Tunis, at the junction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of « U-Shebu'ato le-Yitzhak », published in Livorno in 1820, a work devoted to twenty types of oaths and…

Polish rabbi

Polish physician, brother of Henryk Natanson, born in 1821, died in Warsaw on June 6, 1896. Graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1847, he founded the same year the medical journal "Tygodnik…

French woman of letters (1900–1999)

French actress born in Tournon, in Seine-et-Marne, on September 3, 1816, died on November 17, 1885. She made her debut at the Folies Dramatiques in Paris in 1837, then performed at the Gymnase from…

Father of Shmuel Agmon, leading Hebrew writer. According to Geni, the surname Agmon was adopted (born Bistritzky), a common practice of Hebraicizing names.

German rabbi

Jerusalemite Jewish scholar

Chief Rabbi of Prague

rabbi, speaker, and scribe. One of the introducers of zionism. (1808–1883)

German-British rabbi

rabbi, educator, writer and prominent Zionist activist (1879–1935)

Austrian-German rabbi (1848–1924)

American lawyer

Author of « Judentaufen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert » (Berlin, 1906), a study of conversions of Jews to Christianity in the nineteenth century, and of « Judentum und Proselytismus » on proselytism in…

German physician and author born around 1806 in Eutin, died in Hamburg on July 5, 1862, graduated in medicine at Kiel in 1830. After taking part in the campaign of Poland, he established himself as a…

American physiologist born into a Jewish family from Kishinev, emigrated after the pogroms via Palestine and then to the United States. Professor at the University of Chicago, considered the father…

Journalist and Russo-Hebrew author born in Satanow, in Podolia, on April 15, 1832. After the death of his father in 1853, he went to Odessa where he collaborated with Jacob Israël Levinsohn in the…

Polish professor of chemistry born in Warsaw in 1832, died in that city on September 14, 1884, trained at the University of Dorpat. Appointed in 1862 professor of chemistry at the Szkola Glowna…

Polish rabbi and author, born in Berzan in 1808, died in Lemberg on March 4, 1875, son of Aryeh Lébouch Nathanson, rabbi of Berzan. He studied Talmud in Lemberg with his brother-in-law R. Mordekhaï…

(1878–1918)

French composer born in Dennenlohe, Bavaria, on March 15, 1817, died in Saint-Mandé, near Paris, on May 1, 1880. After being hazzan in Besançon and directing the choir of the Strasbourg synagogue, he…

Cantor born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, in 1813, died in New York on March 4, 1902, from a family of cantors tracing unbroken descent to 1612. Having gone to America after 1848, he was elected cantor…

Turkish rabbi born in Salonika in 1825, died in that same city in 1899. He exercised the rabbinate there, was for many years vice-president of the local committee of the Universal Israelite Alliance…

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Died in 5632 of the Hebrew era (1872). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 98-3.

American rabbi

German rabbi

Moravian rabbi (1843–1891)

English actress born in London in 1868, trained in Wiesbaden, Germany. Returning to London in 1883, she studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music before entering, in 1887, the dramatic career,…

German dermatologist born at Schweidnitz on January 22, 1855, son of the physician Moritz Neisser. After studying medicine at Erlangen and Breslau, completed in 1877, he became the same year…

Mathematician in synthetic geometry; victim of the Shoah.

twentieth-century American rabbi, archaeologist and orientalist

Hungarian deputy born in Peczel in 1852, died in Budapest on 13 December 1904, having studied law in Vienna and Paris. Known until 1871 under the name of Neumann, he collaborated with the "Pester…

Son of rabbi Salomon Samama and Aziza Krief. Caid of the Jews of Tunis, regarded as the head of the richest and most respected Israeli family of the Regency; patron of Talmudic studies, he financed…

Catholic archbishop of Manila, born in 1840 at Bergheim, near Colmar, in Alsace. Emigrated at fourteen with his brother Gabriel to New York, he went at sixteen to Puerto Rico where, struck by yellow…

French physician born in Strasbourg on September 20, 1855. Trained in the hospitals of Paris from 1876 to 1884, he obtained his doctorate in 1883, became associate professor at the faculty of…

Sub-librarian of the Bodleian and reader of rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford, born in Bittse, Hungary, on March 11, 1831. Entrusted in 1864 with a mission to Saint Petersburg to examine Karaite manuscripts,…

English man of letters, secretary of Thomas Carlyle, born in Wurtzbourg, Bavaria, on May 21, 1806, died in London on March 23, 1867. Naturalized English on June 16, 1845, he studied at the University…

German dramatist born in Düsseldorf on August 28, 1839, died in Frankfurt-am-Main on October 27, 1895. First a tutor at the Philanthropin in Frankfurt, he subsequently devoted himself entirely to…

Austrian physician born on December 8, 1868 in Vienna, where he studied medicine, obtaining his doctorate in 1893. After three years of hospital service, he became the assistant of Professor Benedikt…

Hungarian writer born in Budapest on 22 February 1845. After studies in Budapest and Vienna, he entered in 1870 the service of the Austro-Hungarian Bank, published from 1865 his first German…

Russian rabbi born in Gerolzhofen, near Würzburg, in 1809, died in Saint Petersburg on August 22, 1875. After Talmudic studies in Fürth from 1822 and then theology from 1828 in Würzburg and Giessen,…

Austrian theater director born in Vienna on August 18, 1838. He took to the stage in 1859 as a baritone, was a member of the Vienna Court Opera from 1862 to 1876, then lyric director in Leipzig,…

Hungarian deputy born in Grosswardein on February 14, 1845. After studies in law at Berlin and Vienna, he received his diploma in Budapest in 1868, was appointed in 1887 privat-docent of commercial…

German violinist born in Lissa in 1819, died in Trieste in January 1841. Trained musically in Warsaw, where her father had lived for several years before being expelled for political reasons, she…

Austrian dermatologist born in Misslitz, Moravia, on March 2, 1832, trained at the University of Vienna where he obtained his doctorate in 1858. Privatdocent in 1861, associate professor in 1873, he…

German physician and statistician born in Pyritz, in Pomerania, on October 22, 1819, trained in Berlin and in Halle where he obtained his doctorate in 1842. Practitioner in Berlin since 1845, he…

Russian author born in Jozefów, in the governorate of Lublin, on February 12, 1843, died in Warsaw on March 11, 1898, issuing from a family distinguished both in secular and talmudic learning. He…

Austrian economist born in Sankt Georgen on May 31, 1840. After his doctorate, he became privatdozent at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, then associate professor at the Hochschule für…

Rabbi and German author born in Borek, Prussia, on September 23, 1823, died in Breslau on February 24, 1902. After a bookbinding apprenticeship abandoned for study, he held various positions in the…

German painter, portraitist and genre painter, born in Munich on September 5, 1829, died in Tutzing, on Lake Starnberg, on May 24, 1899. Trained by the engraver Peter Latz and at the Academy of…

Russian grammarian born in Neustadt-Sugind (Alexandrów) in 1821, died in Warsaw on September 16, 1886. After Talmudic studies at the Volozhin yeshiva, he taught Hebrew and modern languages in…

American jurist born in New York in 1853, admitted to the bar in 1874 after studies at Columbia Law School. Elected judge of the municipal court of New York in 1891, he served until 1895 before…

English ironmonger and art collector born in London in 1851, died in that city in 1887. He revived the medieval art of the blacksmith and founded the « Old English » forge on Archer Street, at…

American soldier, he entered the Civil War as captain of company B of the 31st New York Infantry Regiment and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. His service ended a few days before the Battle of…

French economist and statistician born in Châlons-sur-Marne on 3 January 1848. Editor of the « Revue Contemporaine » in 1868–69, he founded in 1869 « Le Rentier », a financial newspaper which he…

Dutch jurist born in Hoorn on January 24, 1813, died in Amsterdam on May 15, 1878. Doctor of law from Leiden in 1839, he became one of the most reputed lawyers in Amsterdam, was elected to the Second…

Dutch economist born in Amsterdam on March 6, 1844. Doctor of Law from Leiden in 1866, he established himself as a lawyer in Amsterdam and became in 1871 director of the Amsterdamsche Bank. Member of…

Russian politician

Jewish cantor and composer, born in Novaïa Mych. Cantor in Balti, Kishinev and then, from 1877, in Berditchev. A childhood injury having impaired his voice, he developed a new style of synagogue…

Swedish singer born in Göteborg on March 12, 1819, died in Harzburg on August 27, 1879. Trained at the piano by Chopin in 1839 and in singing by Manuel Garcia in Paris, she made her debut at the…

Nissim Behar (1848-1931), son of Rabbi Eliezer Behar, was a Sephardic educator trained at the normal school of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris (1869). Head of the Alliance school in…

chief Sephardi Rabbi of Israel (1874–1930)

Polish-Jewish Yiddish linguist, journalist and political leader, founder of Yiddish studies institutions and Sejm deputy for the Jewish Folkist party; murdered by the Nazis near Vilnius in 1941.

Linguist, philologist and Yiddish literary historian, cofounder of YIVO.

German Orientalist born March 2, 1836 in Harburg. Educated in Oriental languages at Göttingen, Vienna, Leiden and Berlin, he became assistant professor of Semitic languages at Göttingen in 1864,…

English soldier and adventurer, died in Graham's Town, Cape Colony, on April 26, 1846. Field commander during the Kafir War and captain of yeomanry, he commanded the mounted force sent against the…

American orientalist born in 1809 in Memelsdorf, near Erlangen, in Bavaria, died in 1842. Brilliant Talmud student, trained successively at the rabbinical school of Pressburg under the direction of…

Eldest son of Zionist leader Herbert Bentwich. Attorney General of Mandatory Palestine (1920–1931), then professor of international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1932). Prolific…

Austrian author and sculptor born in Lemberg, in Galicia, on April 18, 1864. After studies in law and sciences in Lemberg and Zurich and then medicine in Vienna, he settled in Berlin and began in…

Founder of the yeshiva of Slabodka (Knesses Yisrael), master of Mussar and formator of leaders.

Russian journalist born in 1849 in Kertch, where his father was a rabbi. After studying law in Saint Petersburg, he directed from 1873 to 1874 the daily « Novoïe Vremia », then bought in 1876 the…

Jamaican magistrate born in Montego Bay on December 12, 1820, died in Falmouth on January 31, 1889. Initially destined for medicine then reconverted to commerce, he engaged in Jamaican political…

Editor and rabbi of Livorno, Italy, died around 1815, son of Isaac Joseph Nuñez-Vaes and student of Isaac Nuñez Belmonte, for whom David b. Raphaël Meldola composed the funeral elegy in 1815. Besides…

Polish historian and community activist born in Warsaw in 1820, died in that city in 1895. Trained at the rabbinical seminary of Warsaw, he founded a school for Jewish boys, contributed around 1850…

American lawyer born in Albany, in the State of New York, son of Simon and Clara Nussbaum, emigrants from Neustadt-on-the-Saale, in Bavaria. After studying in the public schools of his native city…

Hungarian art critic born on August 28, 1861 in Zala-Egerszeg, trained in Vienna and graduated as an architect in 1884. He then studied art history in Paris and Berlin, obtained a doctorate in…

American journalist born in Cincinnati on 20 October 1861, brother of Adolph S. Ochs. Reporter then general manager, from 1896, of the « Daily Times » of Chattanooga, he directed in 1900 the Paris…

German conductor and composer born in Frankfurt am Main on April 19, 1858. After studies in medicine and chemistry at Darmstadt and Heidelberg, he devoted himself entirely to music at the Berlin…

Hungarian rabbi

Austrian-born gynecologist and psychoanalyst

English traveler, writer, and politician born in the Cape in 1829, died in Twickenham, England, in 1888. After a life of adventures, from Walker's Free Corps in Nicaragua to legation secretary in…

Art critic born in Paris on 4 March 1850, died in Saint-Cloud on 19 September 1891, trained like his brother Paul by Chief Rabbi Zadoc Kahn. After serving in the Mobile National Guard during the…

French linguist, creator of the Ollendorff method for teaching modern languages, born in Rawicz, in Posen, in 1802, died in Paris on 3 April 1865. His method, founded on the principle that a foreign…

Russian Hebraist born in Kokhanovo, government of Moghilev, on May 4, 1840, died in Yekaterinoslav on January 17, 1896, descendant of David Conforte, author of the "Seder ha-Dorot". Formed in Hasidic…

Russian rabbi born in Plungian, Kovno Governorate, on August 30, 1825, died in Saint Petersburg on August 5, 1896, descendant of both Mordecai Jaffe, author of the « Levouchim », and Judah Löw ben…

German jurist born in Berlin on 1 April 1866, former privatdozent in Bern and then, in 1904, judge and professor of law at the University of Kiel. He published several legal works between 1888 and…

Rabbi of Péczel, Hungary, died at twenty-eight years old before 1825. He is the author of "Har Ebel," ritual rules on visiting the sick and mourning, published in Lemberg in 1824, and of "Nichmat…

Talmudist who lived in Dessau in the early nineteenth century. He is the author of « Divré Asher », a treatise on circumcision, published in Dessau in 1804.

Jurist, economist and German deputy, born in Frankfurt am Main on July 20, 1819 and died in Berlin on March 29, 1880. He studied law at Göttingen, Heidelberg and Berlin, taught at the University of…

German physician, born in Berlin on January 1, 1858. He studied medicine at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn, where he obtained his degree in 1881, then became an assistant at the Berlin…

Dutch lawyer, born in Groningen March 3, 1849. Doctorate in law in 1872, he taught at the gymnasium of his native city before becoming, in 1873, secretary of the commune of Groningen. Elected…

German naturalist, born in Berlin on May 28, 1863. Graduate of the Royal French Gymnasium of Berlin in 1882, he studied natural sciences, notably zoology and geology, at Heidelberg and Berlin, where…

English physician, born in London in December 1832 and died in that city on January 7, 1895. He enters as a student at London Hospital in 1850, then leaves in 1853 for the Crimea, where he is…

German painter of genre and portrait, born of Orthodox parents in Hanau in 1801 and died in Frankfurt am Main on February 26, 1882. He received his first painting lessons in Hanau then entered the…

English lawyer, born in London in 1824, died in that city on January 3, 1883 ; son of Simeon Oppenheim, secretary of the Great Synagogue. Having become secretary of the literary institution of the…

German physician and writer, born in Berlin on March 30, 1864, son of Rabbi Julius Oppenheimer. After studying medicine at Freiburg and Berlin (1881-86) and obtaining his doctorate in 1885, he…

British Consul General in Frankfurt-am-Main, born in Nastätten, in the Duchy of Nassau, in 1836, died in Frankfurt on June 21, 1900. Emigrated to London where he becomes a merchant, he returns to…

American political cartoonist, born in Madison, Ohio, on 2 January 1857. Arriving in New York in 1873, he devoted himself to art, collaborated with « Frank Leslie's Weekly » then, for eighteen years,…

German merchant and traveler, born in Hamburg December 5, 1832, died September 19, 1903, brother of Jules Oppert. Left for Hong Kong in 1851 then settled in Shanghai, he traveled through Korea in…

German Orientalist, born in Hamburg on July 30, 1836, brother of Jules and Ernst Jacob Oppert. Trained in Bonn, Leipzig, Berlin and Halle, he joins Oxford as sub-librarian in 1860 before holding from…

French Orientalist and Assyriologist, born in Hamburg on July 9, 1825, died in Paris on August 19, 1905. Doctor of Kiel in 1847, he participated in 1851 in the French scientific expedition to…

Russian novelist, born in Yampol, in the government of Podolia, in 1831. Established in Romania, he published his first novel in Hebrew there in 1870, « Bet Ya'aḳob o Dim'at 'Ashuḳim », then several…

English rabbi, born in London in 1836, died in Cape Town on December 6, 1895. Teacher at the Jews' Free School in London, he became at eighteen years old official minister of the congregation of…

Galician rabbinical authority, died in Lemberg in 1839, son of the rabbi of that city Mordecai Zeeb Ornstein, too young at his death to succeed him. After being rabbi of Zolkiev, he is called in 1806…

Austrian rabbinical scholar, died in Lemberg on October 28, 1837, son of Jacob Meshullam Ornstein, rabbi of that city, who instructed him in Talmudic and rabbinical literature and several of whose…

Austrian rabbi, born in Lemberg, where he died on March 21, 1888, son of Mordecai Zeeb Ornstein and grandson of Jacob Meshullam Ornstein, rabbis of the same city. He first held the rabbinate of…

Russian jurist and publicist, born in Yekaterinoslav in 1846, died in that same town on 5 September 1875. Entering the University of Kharkov in 1863 to study law, he writes there from the same year…

Russian physician, born in Yekaterinoslav around 1851, younger brother of jurist Ilya Orshanski. Trained first in Bible and Talmud, he enrolled in 1869 at the medical faculty of Odessa, obtained his…

Born in Stettin to German Jewish parents, Abraham and Berthe Hammerstein. Impresario who opened several theatres and opera houses in New York, he helped revive the popularity of opera in the United…

Grandson of Oscar Hammerstein I, one of the greatest lyricists-librettists of American musical theater (Show Boat, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The Sound of Music). Eight Tony Awards and two Oscars for…

Italian engineer

Austrian physician, born in Nikolsburg, Moravia, on July 27th, 1839. Graduate of the University of Vienna, he established himself there as a physician in 1862, became privatdocent in 1872, head of…

Yiddish poet, precursor of the Kiev group, died fighting in the Red Army.

Italian physician, born in Montagnana in 1818, died in Padua on 1 May 1881. Graduate in medicine from Padua University in 1851, he devoted himself from 1854 onwards to the study of silkworm diseases,…

Russian and Yiddish playwright (Bronx Express), figure of American Yiddish theatre.

French philanthropist and patron, born in Bordeaux on July 23, 1825. He devoted his fortune to numerous works: synagogues in Arcachon, rue Buffault in Paris — inaugurated on September 3, 1877…

Russian Revolutionary (1849–1926)

French painter and sculptor of Russian origin

American electrical engineer, born in Frankfurt am Main on June 12, 1869. Arriving with his parents in New York in 1884, he undertook in 1891 the study of electricity and graduated as an electrical…

Russian economist and political sociologist, born in 1854, son of a Jewish teacher from Grodno. After studying law at the University of Saint Petersburg, he published as early as 1872 a chronology of…

Croatian banker

German poetess, born in Stuttgart on 10 September 1807, died in the same city in 1883. A fervent Jew concerned with combating anti-Jewish prejudices, she counts among her friends and correspondents…

German writer, born in Breslau on November 19, 1808, died in Blasewitz, near Dresden, on June 26, 1872. Converted to Catholicism in 1828, he led a life as an itinerant journalist between Berlin,…

Austrian physician, born in Tarnow, Galicia, on May 7, 1818, died in Cracow on October 2, 1895. A graduate of Cracow University (doctor of medicine in 1843, doctor of surgery in 1850), he has taught…

Czech sculptor of Jewish origin, pioneer of cubist sculpture alongside Picasso and Archipenko, born in Dvůr Králové.

Born on February 21, 1867 in Mannheim (Grand Duchy of Baden) in a German Jewish family. Emigrated to London and then to New York, he became in 1897 partner of the Kuhn, Loeb & Co. bank where he…

German politician

Austrian journalist and author (1897–1973)

Austrian philosopher, sociologist, economist and graphic designer

German physician

Born in Sohrau (now Żory) in a Jewish family, doctoral degree in physical chemistry from Breslau (1912), collaborator of Einstein. He developed the molecular beam method and, with Walther Gerlach,…

German mathematician from a Jewish family of mathematicians, known for his work in functional analysis (Toeplitz matrices, Hellinger-Toeplitz theorem). Dismissed from his position in 1935 under Nazi…

Austrian philosopher and psychologist

Italian author, born at Acqui on 7 November 1820, died on 5 October 1883 at Alessandria, where he had resided since 1848. A fervent patriot, correspondent of D'Azeglio, Bianchi-Giovini, Balbo and…

Italian philanthropist, born in Acqui on 5 November 1830, residing in Alessandria since 1848. Elected to the municipal council in 1882 and reelected several times, he sits on the council of the…

Italian general, born in Sabbioneta, Lombardy, on December 26, 1838, died in Turin on November 2, 1904. Volunteer in the 1859 campaign, he took part in the campaigns of 1860 and 1861 — first Jew to…

Italian rabbi, born in Acqui in 1820, died in Rome in 1890. He successively held the rabbinates of Turin, Moncalvo and then, from 1858, Acqui, before spending his last years in Rome. Renowned…

Italian philanthropist, born in Asti on November 3, 1829, died in Pisa on February 20, 1904. He rebuilds in 1889 the synagogue of Asti, organizes an exhibition of which he is president then promotes…

Italian physician, born in Asti on March 20, 1861. Trained in his native city then at the University of Turin (doctor of medicine in 1884), he has been since 1888 assistant professor of medicine and…

One of the leaders of Russian Zionism, born in 1863 in Dubrovna, in the governorate of Moghilev, who left for Moscow with his parents in 1871. Graduate engineer in 1889, settled in Yekaterinoslav…

Rabbi of Tunis, author of Mishkenot ha-Roïm, a collection of 1,499 responsa.