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Markus LandauMarkus Landau was a famous writer and literary historian. Born in Brody in 1837, Landau’s first career was in trade. As a merchant, Landau... |
Brody | ||
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 | |
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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 |
Henry RothAn American novelist and short story writer. His first book Call it Sleep was published in 1934. |
Author | Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk) | |
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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 |
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Paul CelanPaul Celan was one of the major German language poets and translator after World War II. His poetry being influenced by his traumatic experience... |
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Mayer von KallirMayer von Kallir was a famous banker and patron of the arts. He was born in 1789 to a family of immigrants from Bohemia. His father, Alehander Kallir... |
Banker | Brody | |
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Roald HoffmannRoald Hoffmann was born in Zolochiv Poland (now Ukraine). He is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in... |
Biochemist |
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