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Name | Occupation or position | Community | |
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Dov SadanProfessor Dov Sadan was born in Brody in the Galicia region of Austria-Hungary. Sadan received a traditional Jewish education. He joined... |
Scholar | Brody | |
Helena RubinsteinHelena Rubinstein was born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Poland). she was a Polish-born American business magnate. A cosmetics... |
Business owner | Kraków | |
Henry RothAn American novelist and short story writer. His first book Call it Sleep was published in 1934. |
Author | Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk) | |
Hermann MenkesHermann Menkes was a well-known writer, journalist and literary critic. Born in Brody in 1865, Menkes graduated from the departments of literary... |
Journalist | Brody | |
Isaak RobinsohnIsaak Robinsohn was a well-known radiologist, born in the town of Brody in 1874. His father ran a bookshop and, as a result, Isaak was surrounded by... |
Radiologist | Brody | |
Isidor Isaac RabiIsidor Isaac Rabi was born in Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He was a Polish-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1944 for... |
Physics | Rimanuv רימנוב | |
Iuliu (Yehuda) BaraschBorn in Brody in 1815, Julius Barasch received a traditional religious education, but after meeting two famous maskillim, Hirsh Mendel and Izkhak... |
Scientist | Brody | |
Jakub Karol ParnasJakub Karol Parnas was born in 1884 in Mokriany near Drohobych, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the province of Galicia (now... |
Biochemist |