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Biography

Eugen Täubler

Nathan Peter Levinson

Herbert A. Strauss

Fritz Bamberger

Ismar Elbogen

Regina Jonas

Lucy Dawidowicz

Hannah Arendt

Gershom Scholem

Alexander Guttmann

Heinrich Loewe

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich

Adele Sperling

Johanna Nathan

Hans Erich Fabian

Arthur Spanier

Julius Lewkowitz

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Geiger

Ernst Grumach

Leo Baeck

Jenny Wilde

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