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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 |
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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 |
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Ludwig Heinrich Edler von MisesLudwig von Mises was born to wealthy Jewish parents in the city of Lemberg, in Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now L'viv, Ukraine). He was a... |
Philosopher | Lviv |
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Stanisław Marcin UlamStanisław Marcin Ulam was a renowned Jewish-Polish-American mathematician. He participated in America's Manhattan Project, originated the Teller... |
Mathematician | Lviv |
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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 |
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Yitzhak ArtziArtzi was born Izo Hertzig in Siret, Romania into a Hassidic family. He was educated at high schools in his hometown and Chernivtsi, before attending... |
Zionist activist | Siret |
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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Salo Wittmayer BaronSalo Wittmayer Baron was an American historian of Polish-Austrian Jewish ancestry and the most noted historian of the Jews of his generation. Baron... |
Historian | Tarnow |