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Name | Occupation or position | Community | |
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Salo Wittmayer BaronSalo Wittmayer Baron was an American historian of Polish-Austrian Jewish ancestry and the most noted historian of the Jews of his generation. Baron... |
Historian | Tarnow | |
Shmuel Yosef AgnonShmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew... |
Author | Buchach | |
Sir Hersch LauterpachtSir Hersch Lauterpacht was born in Zhovkva, Austria-Hungary. He was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to... |
Judge | ||
Stanisław Marcin UlamStanisław Marcin Ulam was a renowned Jewish-Polish-American mathematician. He participated in America's Manhattan Project, originated the Teller... |
Mathematician | Lviv | |
Szymon AskenazySzymon Ashkenazy was born in Zawichost. He was a Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school. ... |
Historian | ||
Wilhelm ReichWilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of... |
Psychiatrist | ||
Yitzhak ArtziArtzi was born Izo Hertzig in Siret, Romania into a Hassidic family. He was educated at high schools in his hometown and Chernivtsi, before attending... |
Zionist activist | Siret | |
Yitzhak Ben-AharonBen-Aharon was born in the Bukovina region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Romania). He became a leader in Hashomer Hatzair in Romania,... |
Zionist activist |