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Max MargulesMax Margules was a well-known mathematician and meteorologist. Born in Brody in 1856, Margules graduated from the University of Vienna, where he... |
Mathematician | Brody |
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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Meir BalabanMeir Balaban was one of the most outstanding historians of Polish and Galician Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography. ... |
Historian | Lviv |
Oser KokeschOser Kokesch was a Zionist activist, born in Brody in 1859. After graduating with a law degree from the University of Vienna, Kokesch –... |
Zionist activist | Brody | |
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Otto PremingerOtto Preminger was born in 1905 in Wiznitz (Vyzhnytsia), a town in west of Czernowitz, northern Bukovyna, in today's Ukraine. He was ... |
Filmmaker | |
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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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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 |
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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... |
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