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Richard BEER-HOFFMANN
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(1866 Vienna - 1945 New York)
Author. Grew up in Brno (Brünn), Moravia
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Hugo BERGMANN
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(1883 Prague - 1975 Jerusalem)
Professor of Philosophy and first President of the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem |
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Louis Dembitz BRANDEIS
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(1856 Louisville - 1941 Washington,
D.C.) U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1916-1939), first Jew to
sit on Supreme Court. Parents emigrated from Prague to U.S.
in 1849
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Max BROD
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(1884 Prague - 1968 Tel Aviv)
Author, philospher and critic |
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Leopold EIDLITZ
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(1823 Prague - 1908 N.Y.)
Architect |
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Dr. Heinrich FLESCH
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(1875 - 1942) Most important for
genealogists, his specialty was his research into the origin of
Jewish names
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Felix FRANKFURTER
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(1882 Vienna - 1965 Washington,
D.C.) U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1939-1962). Mother's
name was Emma WINTER |
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Hadassah Lieberman née FREILICH
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Wife of U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
Joseph Lieberman |
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Sigmund FREUD
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(1856 Pribor (Freiberg), Moravia
- 1939 London) Doctor and founder of psychoanalysis.
Mother's name was Amalie NATHANSOHN
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Alfred Hermann FRIED
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(b. 1864 Vienna, d. 1921), won 1911
Nobel Peace Prize |
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David FRIEDMANN
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(1893 Mährisch Ostrau - 1980 St. Louis, Missouri)
- Holocaust Artist
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David GANS
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(1541 Prague -1613 Prague) Scientist
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Sidonie GRUENWALD-
ZERKOWITZ
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(1852 Tobitschau, Moravia - 1907 Karlsbad, Bohemia).
A writer known for her naturalistic and erotic works and poetry
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Rabbi Shabtai Ben
Meir HaCOHEN
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(1621 - 1663 Holesov, Moravia) The idea of a comprehensive
review of the Talmud each week was revived by Rabbi Shabtai Hacohen,
author of the classical Siftei Cohen on the Shulchan Aruch. His Poel Zedek
(Worker of Righteousness) was a listing of the 613 mitzvot, each identified
by a one-line scriptual source. He divided them into seven sections to
enable readers to easily complete a total review each week. There
is a museum in Holesov dedicated to him
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Bruno HAMMERSCHLAG
EBEL
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(May 5, 1904 Vitkovice, Moravia - April 25, 1974 Panama)
A pioneering and well-respected physician in Panama
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Hugo von HOFFMANSTHAL
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(1874 Vienna - 1929 Rodaun near Vienna) Author
and founder of the Salzburg Festival
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Edmund HUSSERL
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(1859 Prostejov (Prossnitz, Moravia) - 1938 Freiburg
im Breisgau, Germany) Philosopher, founder of Phenomenology
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Rabbi Adolf JELLINEK
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(1821 Drslavice (Drslawitz), Moravia - 1893 Vienna)
Chief Rabbi of Vienna, considered to be the most forceful Jewish preacher
of his time in Central Europe
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Emil JELLINEK
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(1853 Leipzig - 1918 Geneva). Diplomat.
Son of Rabbi Adolf Jellinek of Drslavice, Moravia. Involved in
the design and naming of the Mercedes automobile, after his daughter Mercedes
JELLINEK
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Franz KAFKA
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(1883 Prague - 1924 Kierling near Vienna). Author,
considered one of the most important of the 20th Century. Mother's
name was Julie LÖWY
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(click on
the last book icons for family background information)
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Eric KANDEL
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(b. 1929, Vienna) won 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Hans KELSEN
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(Prague 1881 - Berkeley 1973). Prof. Kelsen is generally
recognized as one of the greatest jurists and philosophers of law in the20th
century. His parents moved from Prague to Vienna. Kelsen drafted
the Austrian Constitution
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(video- auf Deutsch)
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Egon Erwin KISCH
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(1885 Prague - 1948 Prague) Journalist
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Walter KOHN
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(b. 1923 Vienna) 1998 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry.
Father's family was Moravian, mother's family was Galician
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Rudolf KOLISCH
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(1896 Klammm, Austria - 1978 Watertown, Massachusetts)
Violinist, founder of the Kolisch quartet that championed modern music
of his brother-in-law Arnold SCHOENBERG and Bela Bartok. Son of
Rudolf Rafael KOLISCH
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Rudolf Rafael KOLISCH
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(1867 Korycany (Koritschan), Moravia - 1922 Vienna)
Doctor, authored several books on the treatment of diabetes. Nephew
of Siegmund KOLISCH. Also descended from REIF, SINGER and WETTSCHEK
in Korycany, Ostroh and Butschowitz, Moravia
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Siegmund KOLISCH
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(1816 Korycany (Koritschan), Moravia - 1886 Hodonin (Göding),
Moravia) Journalist and author active during 1848 revolutionary
period. Theater critic and feuilletonist for the Neue Freie Presse
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Madeline Albright
née KORBEL
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Former U.S. Secretary of State
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Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD
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(1897 Brno (Brünn), Moravia - 1957 Hollywood)
Composer. Was considered the greatest child prodigy of his time
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Rabbi Noda B'Yehuda
the Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel (Ezekiel) LANDAU
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(1713-1793) Chief Rabbi of Prague. For more information,
including an extensive genealogy, go to THE OFFICIAL NODA B'YEHUDA
WEBSITE --->
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Rabbi Judah LOEW
(The Maharal of Prague)
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(1525 Posen-1609 Praha) The Maharal was one of the most
seminal thinkers in the post-medieval period. He developed an entirely
new approach to the aggada of the Talmud and it is likely that no previous
author devoted so much space to the interpretation of the non-halachic
thought of the rabbis of the Talmud |
(click on the second
"book" to read about Rabbi Loew and the Golem) |
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Gustav MAHLER
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(1860 Kaliste (Kalischt), Bohemia - 1911 Vienna)
Composer and conductor. Grew up in Jihlava (Iglau), Bohemia.
Also descended from BONDY and HERMANN
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Lise MEITNER
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(1878 Vienna - 1968) Of Moravian origin, she was an Austrian-Swedish
physicist who first identified nuclear fission
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I.E. Ludwig MOSER
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Founder of Moser Glass - "Glass of Kings, King of Glass"
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Max Ferdinand PERUTZ
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(b. 1914 Vienna - 2002), won 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Sir Karl Raimund
POPPER
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(1902 Vienna - 1994 London) Generally regarded as
one of the greatest philosophers of science of this century. His father,
Dr. Simon Popper, had come to Vienna from Bohemia
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Harry POTTER
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Fictional Character. His grandfather, Hessel Potchker,
was portrayed as an immigrant from Bohemia and a descendant of the venerable
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel - as reported in Hadassah magazine -->
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Max REINHARDT (GOLDMANN)
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(1873 Baden, Austria - 1943 New York) Director.
Founder of Salzburg Festival |
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Adolph Joachim SABATH
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(1866 Zabori, Bohemia - 1952) U.S. Democratic Representative
from Illinois. Champion of the "New Deal," he introduced several
labor, relief and social welfare measures. He died two days after
being reelected to his 24th term in Congress. Mother was Barbara
EISENSCHIMMEL
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Fritz SAXL
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(1890 Vienna-1948) He became a very famous art historian,
working most of his life at the Warburg Institute in Hamburg. After
fleeing the Nazis, he lived in London where he continued to carry out Warburg's
legacy
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Maximillian 'Max' Rudolf SCHLING
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(1874
Horni Cerekev - 1943 New York) Horticulturist. Schling was
particularly known for his success in orchid hybridization. For a time
he worked in the Hapsburg Palace Gardens, then emmigrated to the United
States and opened a shop in the Savoy in New York City. He cultivated
the persona of friendly flower shopkeeper to the New York elite, while
quietly building a large corporation, running greenhouses, seeds
catalogues, and putting into place the origins of 'teleflorist.' He was
one of the few Jews featured in the 1930s New York Blue Book. Schling
was celebrated enough for Ogden Nash to pen a poem about his green
thumb and for features in the 'New York Times' and 'New Yorker'.
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Arnold SCHOENBERG
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(1874 Vienna - 1951 Los Angeles) Composer.
Considered perhaps the greatest of the 20th century, founded the Second
Viennese School and developed twelve-tone method of composition. Mother
Pauline NACHOD from Prague. Also descended from JONTOF-HUTTER, TRITSCH,
ZEIMER, ZODEX from Prague and Hreshilavy (Rescholau), Bohemia
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Otto (Ota) SITTIG
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Prof. Dr Sittig of Prague may have been the world's first
neurologist to perform
(scientifically sound) open brain surgery in the 1920s or '30s
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Hermann STEINSCHNEIDER
(Erik Jan Hanussen)
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(1889 Vienna - 1933) Famous clairvoyant and psychic.Extremely
well-known throughout Europe in his time, he still retains a modern-day
cult following in astrological and paranormal circles
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Moritz STEINSCHNEIDER
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(1816 Prostejov [Prossnitz, Moravia] - 1907) Famous
Orientalist, one of the father's of modern Jewish learning, and one of the
founders of Modern Zionism
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Franz WERFEL
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(1890 Prague - 1945 Beverly Hills) Author
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Max WERTHEIMER
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(1880 Prague - 1943 New Rochelle, NY, USA) He was
an outstanding psychologist and founder of the Gestalt Psychology
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Rabbi Isaac Mayer
WISE
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(1819 Lomnicka (Steingrub), Bohemia - 1900 Cincinnati)
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Karl WITTGENSTEIN
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(1847 Gohlie near Leipzig - 1913 Vienna). Entrepreneur,
started with mill at Teplice (Teplitz), Bohemia and later owned shares
of the Bohemian Mining Company, directed Prague Ironworks. Father
of Ludwig and Paul WITTGENSTEIN
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Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
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(1889 Vienna - 1951 Cambridge) Philosopher, considered
one of the most influential of the 20th century. Motherís
name was Leopoldine KALMUS
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Paul WITTGENSTEIN
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(1887 Vienna - 1961 New York) Pianist, lost arm
in WWI and continued career as famed one-armed pianist |
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Eric ZEISL
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(1905 Vienna - 1959 Los Angeles) Composer.
Mother Kamilla FEITLER from Cesky Budejovice (Budweis). Also descended
from BLOCH, KOHN, LEWY, REICHMANN, STAMPFER, STEININGER and ZEISL from Ckyne,
Kolodeje (Kalladay), Pardubice (Pardubitz), Rozmberk (Rosenberg) in Bohemia
and Rozsochy (Rassoch) in Moravia
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