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Name | Occupation or position | Community | |
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Chajes Hirsch PerezHirsch Perez Chajes was a theologian, orientalist, and one of the leaders of the Zionist movement. He was born in Brody in 1876.After graduating from... |
Theologian | Brody | |
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 | |
Billy WilderBilly Wilder was born Samuel Wilder to a Jewish family in Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary. He was an Austrian-born American filmmaker,... |
Filmmaker | ||
Berl LockerBerl Locker Born in Kriwiec in Austria-Hungary, Locker was educated at a Jewish school. In 1902 he began contributing to the Der Yidisher... |
Politician | ||
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 | |
Arthur HertzbergAvraham Hertzberg was born in Lubaczów, Poland, the eldest of five children, and left Europe in 1926 with his mother and grandmother to join his... |
Scholar | Lubaczów לוברצ'וב | |
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 | |
Alfred LandauAlfred Landau was a famous folklorist and philologist. Born in Brody in 1850, into the family of a famous rabbi, Landau studied in a gymnasium in... |
Folklorist | Brody |