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David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was a Russian-American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America ...
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Stanisław Moniuszko (May 5, 1819, Ubiel, Minsk Governorate – June 4, 1872, Warsaw, Congress Poland) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his music ...
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Hanna Rovina (Hebrew: חנה רובינא; 15 September 1888 – 3 February 1980), also Robina, was an Israeli actress. She is often referred to as the "First Lady of Hebrew Theatre".
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Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand (September 8, 1867 – December 12, 1924) and sometimes called Helphand in the literature on the Russian Revolution, was a Marxist theoretician, ...
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Kandrat Krapiva (Belarusian: Кандра́т Крапіва́, 5 March 1896 – 7 January 1991) was a Belarusian writer, playwright, social activist, and literary critic. He was the winner of two Stalin Prizes in 1941 ...
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Moshe Feinstein or Moses Feinstein (Hebrew: משה פײַנשטיין Moshe Faynshteyn; March 3, 1895 – March 23, 1986) was an American Orthodox rabbi, scholar, and posek (authority on halakha—Jewish ...
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Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a Russian painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.
Belarusian playwright, writer and poet (1896–1938)
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Michaś Čarot (also spelled Mihas Charot; Belarusian: Міхась Чарот, name at birth: Michaś Kudzielka; 7 November 1896 - 29 October 1937) was a Belarusian poet, playwright, novelist, and a victim of Stalin's ...
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Mikola Ravienski (Belarusian: Мікола Якаўлевіч Равенскі; 5 December 1886 - 9 March 1953) was a Belarusian composer, conductor and music critic who authored music for the famous hymn Mahutny Boža (Almighty ...
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Yelena Grigorievna Mazanik (Russian: Елена Григорьевна Мазаник, Belarusian: Алена Рыгораўна Мазанік; 2 March 1914 – 7 April 1996) was the Soviet partisan responsible for the assassination of Wilhelm Kube ...
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Anatol' Volny (Belarusian, Анатоль Вольны, 1902 – 29 October 1937) was a Belarusian artist, poet, writer and journalist. During the Great Purge, he became a victim of the 1937 mass execution of Belarusians ...
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Samuel Solomon Cohon (22 March 1888 – 22 August 1959) was a rabbi and Chair of Theology at Hebrew Union College, a prominent leader of American Reform Judaism in the mid-20th Century.
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Shmuel Niger (also Samuel Niger, pen name of Samuel Charney, 1883-1955) was a Yiddish writer, literary critic and historian and was one of the leading figures of Yiddish cultural work and Yiddishism in ...
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Semion Lvovich Abugov (Russian: Семён Львович Абугов) (December 30, 1877 in Byerazino, Minsk Governorate – May 3, 1950 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and ...
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Melchior Wańkowicz (10 January 1892 – 10 September 1974) was a Polish army officer, popular writer, political journalist and publisher. He is most famous for his reporting for the Polish Armed Forces in ...
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Lev Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба, Belarusian: Леў Уладзіміравіч Шчэрба) (March 3 [O.S. February 20] 1880 – December 26, 1944) was a Russian linguist and lexic ...
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Walenty Wańkowicz (Lithuanian: Valentinas Vankavičius, Belarusian: Валенты Ваньковіч; February 14, 1799 in Kałużyce - May 12, 1842 in Paris) was a Polish painter of Belarusan origin. He studied at the ...