- male, deceased (1808)
- Abraham ben Elijah of Wilna was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Lithuania. He was born in Vilna about 1750 and died there on December 14, 1808. He...
- male, deceased (1902)
- Rabbi Jacob Joseph (1840-July 28 1902) was the first and only Chief Rabbi of New York (actually, he served as chief rabbi of New York City's...
- male, 96 years old
- Abraham Sutzkever (July 15, 1913 -) is a Yiddish poet and Holocaust-era partisan. (Alternate English spellings: Avrom Sutzkever, Avrohom...
- male, deceased (1885)
- Mattityahu Strashun (1817-1885) was a rabbi and scholar of Vilna, the son of Samuel Strashun. He was a significant figure of the "Haskalah". The...
- male, deceased (1940)
- Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (1863-1940) was a world renowned pre-war Dayan, Posek and Talmudic scholar in Vilna.
- female, 79 years old
- Esther Hautzig (October 18, 1930) is a Jewish-American writer, best known for her award-winning book "The Endless Steppe" (1968). She was born in...
- male, deceased (1855)
- Tomasz Zan, was a Polish poet and activist. In 1817 he was a cofounder of the Philomatic Association (Towarzystwo Filomatow), in 1820, Radiant...
- male, deceased (1898)
- Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, also known as the Maharil Diskin, was an important Talmudist and Biblical Commentator, best known for being the Rabbi...
- male, deceased (1861)
- Joachim Lelewel to his "Géographie des Arabes" (1851). One of his most important publications was "La Géographie du moyen âge" (5 vols., Bru...
- male
- Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin (1881-1966) was a famous Orthodox Rabbi. He is also known as the "Lutzker Rav", since he served as the Rabbi of Lutsk,...
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