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Name | Occupation or position | Community | |
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Aron Hersch ZupnikAron Zupnik was born in Stryi, Galicia, in 1848. He settled in Drohobych in 1866, the year in which he also... |
Writer | Drohobych | |
Bruno SchulzBruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher born to Jewish parents, and regarded as one of the great Polish-... |
Author | Drohobych | |
Leopold GottliebLeopold Gottlieb was a Polish-Jewish modernist painter. He was born in Drohobych, Galicia, received his art education in Krakow and Munich, and in... |
Artist | Drohobych | |
Ascher Selig LauterbachAscher Selig Lauterbach was born in 1826 in Drohobych to a family of salt merchants. His father, Yaakov Betzalel ben Zvi, was born in Bavaria... |
Industrialist | Drohobych | |
Leon SternbachLeon Sternbach was a Polish-Jewish classical philologist and Byzantinist, a professor at the Jagellonian University. Born in Drohobych, Galicia,... |
Classical philologist | Drohobych | |
Pinhas LavonPinhas Lavon was born as Pinhas Lubianiker in Kopychyntsi in what was previously Galicia in Austria-Hungary (now in Ukraine). He studied law at... |
Politician | Kopychyntsi | |
Helena RubinsteinHelena Rubinstein was born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Poland). she was a Polish-born American business magnate. A cosmetics... |
Business owner | Kraków | |
Leopold InfeldLeopold Infeld was born in a family of Polish Jews, in Kraków which at that time was located in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a... |
Physicist | Kraków |