2/21 | Birthday of Maurycy Gottlieb
Today in Yiddishkayt… February 21 Birthday of Maurycy Gottlieb, Polish Jewish artist Maurycy Gottlieb was born on February 21, 1856 in Drohobycz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today: Дрогобич, Ukraine). Gottlieb’s artistic talent was strongly encouraged by his family. Of the 11 siblings, three other brothers became artists as well. Gottlieb studied at Vienna Fine Arts Academy, and later under Jan Matejko in Kraków. He spent several yeas in Norway before returning to Vienna to search for his Jewish roots and pursue his career as an artist. He was perhaps the first Polish...
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Today in Yiddishkayt… January 25 Birthday of Emil Ludwig, German Writer Emil Ludwig was born Emil Cohn on January 25, 1881 in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland). The son of a Jewish ophthalmologist, Ludwig studied law but chose to pursue a career in writing. At first he wrote plays and novels and also worked as a journalist, moving to Switzerland in 1906. During World War I he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. Although Ludwig converted to Catholicism as a young man, he renounced his conversion following the murder of German foreign...
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