הגה"צ ר' יחיאל אבד"ק סאלקא בן הקונה"ס (מוזכר בשו"ת השיב משה סי' ט. גם קיבל כתב סמיכה או הוראה מהישמח משה) היה חסיד איהעל וסיגוט גם נסע פעם לצאנז. נפטר בשנת תרכ"ב 1) בנו הגה"צ ר' כתריאל כהנא אב"ד סאלק...

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Rabbi Zev Wolf Tannenbaum, zt"l (1787-1872), Av Beit Din Szendro, Borsod and then Verpleleter Rav. Patriarch of the Tannenbaum rabbinic dynasty. Author of : "Rechovos HaNahar", "Palgei Mayim" w...

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Kaliv Hasidic dynasty The Kaliver Dynasty began with Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Taub (1744-1828) of Kaliv (Kalov, Kalev), Hungary. He was the first Hassidic Rebbe in Hungary and famous for composing the ...

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תולדות הרה"ק רבי משולם פייש סג"ל לאוי זי"ע אבדק"ק טאהש – כ"ח סיון תרל"ג ואלה תולדות הרה"ק רבי משולם פייש סג"ל לאווי זצוק"ל זיעועכ"י אבדקק טאהש יצ"ו, נולד לערף בשנת תקע"ו לפ"ק לאביו הרה"ק רבי מר...

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Grand Rabbi Elimelech served as a rabbi near the Czech border, in the town of Nirtash, from which the sect derives its name. Tosh (also Tash; Hebrew/Yiddish: טאהש) is a Hasidic dynasty originating in...

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Tosh Hasidic Dynasty Lineage of the Tosh Dynasty The first Tosher Rebbe was Grand Rabbi Meshulam Feish Segal-Loewy, a disciple of Rabbi Yitschok Ayzik of Komarno, author of Heichal HaBrocho. Ra...

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Meshulim Feish (Ferencz) Lowy , was born in Hungary in 1921, the son of a rabbi in the Hungarian town of Demetch who was known as the Demetcher rov (rabbi). His grandfather, Elimelech, served as a rabb...

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A professional photographer, in his time he was one of the best specialists of child portraits. He became was granted the title “imperial and royal court photographer” in 1885. His status in the profes...

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Shlomo Ganzfried (or Salomo ben Joseph Ganzfried; Ungvar, 1804 – 30 July 1886, Ungvar) was an Orthodox rabbi and posek best known as author of the work of Halakha (Jewish law), the Kitzur Shulchan Aruc...

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George Soros (Hungarian: Soros György) born August 12, 1930 as Schwartz György, is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Mana...

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An immunologist who conducted groundbreaking experiments that helped establish the mechanism that sets off allergic reactions Zoltan Purjesz Ovary was born in Kolozsvar, Hungary, in what is now Roman...

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Famous Rabbi, known for his book "Shemen Rokeach" plus 11 others. He taught 2,000 Yeshivah students, and many miracle stories about him exist. At age 10 he was called illui - a prodigy in talmudic le...

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אבד"ק קעלין מחבר שערי תורה Benjamin Wolf Löw (b. 1775; d. March 6, 1851) was a Polish-Hungarian rabbi. He was also known as Binyamin ben Elʻazar, Benjamin Adolf Löw, and Binyamin Ṿolf Leṿ, a.b.d. ḳ...

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Dr. Rado was one of the galaxy of Hungarian mathematicians who came to the United States after World War I and imparted a significant impulse to the development of mathematical studies. Professor Rado'...

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Otto Szász (1884-1952) was born in Alsoszucs, Hungary to a farm family and was educated at the University of Budapest and the Institute of Technology of Budapest. According to the custom of the time, d...

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Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (February 1, 1928 – February 11, 2008) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death, representing the northern two-thirds ...

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Richter, Gedeon , (Ecséd, September 23rd, 1872 – Budapest, December 30th, 1944) The creator of Hungarian pharmaceutical industry who left behind extraordinary life-work, a pharmaceutical factory of wor...

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Mátyás Rákosi (9 March 1892[1]– 5 February 1971) was a Hungarian communist politician. He was born Mátyás Rosenfeld in present-day Serbia. He was the de facto ruler of communist Hungary between 1945 an...

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George (György) Pólya (December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940...

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George Charles de Hevesy , Georg Karl von Hevesy, (1 August 1885 – 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tr...

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Avram Hershko, אברהם הרשקו ‎ (born 31 December 1937) is a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2004 , "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" . Bio...

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Alexander Altmann (April 16, 1906 – June 6, 1987) was an Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi born in Kassa, Austria-Hungary, today Košice, Slovakia. He emigrated to England in 1938 and later settled in t...

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Harav Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal , the saintly author of "Eim HaBanim Semeichah" the most comprehensive treatise on Eretz Yisrael, Redemption, and Jewish Unity originally shared the prevalent Orthodox vi...

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David Gestetner (March 20, 1854, Csorna, Hungary – March 8, 1939, London) was the inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator, the first piece of office equipment that allowed production of numerous c...

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Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner and auto racing enthusia...

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Kati Marton is a Hungarian-American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio, where she started as a production assista...

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Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, CH (September 25, 1872- January 14, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian-born Rabbi and Bible scholar. He is most notable for holding the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdo...

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Joseph Pulitzer April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911), born Pulitzer József, was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the tec...

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Rabbi Shimon Sofer (1820–1883) (German: Simon Schreiber) was a prominent Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in the 19th century. He was Chief Rabbi of Kraków, Poland after serving as Chief Rabbi of Mattersdorf. He ...

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Chasam Sofer website Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyomin Sofer , (German: Abraham Samuel Benjamin Schreiber), also known by his main work Ksav Sofer (trans. Writ of the Scribe), (1815 - 1871), was one of...

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Chasam Sofer website Wikipedia bio Chatam Sofer family tree מקום מנוחת בני החת"ס

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Rachel Hannah Weisz born 7 March 1970 is a British film and theatre actress and former fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group...

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Harry Houdini , considered one of the greatest illusionists in history, was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor, and film producer noted for his sensational esca...

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Curtis was born as Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx, New York, a son of Emanuel Schwartz and his wife Helen Klein. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Mátészalka, Hungary. His father was a tailor and ...

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American economist, statistician, and economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and Nobel laureate.

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Sándor_Ferenczi Sandor Ferenczi timeline ‪ The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi: 1908-1914‬ By Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi

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Paul Erdős (26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian born mathematician famous for his brilliantly elegant proofs of seemingly unsolvable mathematical problems, especially in the area of numb...

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"Imre Kertész - Biography" . Nobelprize.org. 30 Nov 2011 Imre Kertész . Born: 9 November 1929, Budapest, Hungary. Nobel Prize in Literature 2002, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of t...

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KBE is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor . He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as ...

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Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (Wigner Jenő Pál; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) FRS was a Hungarian American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physi...

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Max Nordau born Simon Maximilian Südfeld (July 29, 1849 - January 23, 1923) in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. As a social critic, he wrote a number of cont...

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איך ליצור ולהרוס גיבורה לאומית - אלי אשד Hannah Szenes (July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jew, one of 37 Jews who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during ...

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Neumann János Wikipedia, Magyar / Hungarian John von Neumann Wikipedia, English John von Neumann (1903 - 1957) is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history. He is...

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1949 - Theodor Herzl returns to Israel Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הרצל‎, Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl, also known as חוזה המדינה, Hoze Ha'Medinah (lit. "visionary of the State") (May 2, 1860 — July 3,...

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Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar) (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Rabbi Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum (November 1, 1914 – April 24, 2006) was a Hasidic rebbe and the world leader of the Satmar Hasidim, wh...

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Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum - The Satmarer Rebbe (1887–1979) Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum began his rabbinic career in Krooly, a small town in Hungary. In 1929, the Rav of the Orthodox community in Satmar, a la...

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Grandfather of SCS Jewish Dynasties Moshe Teitelbaum (1759-1841) (Hebrew: משה טייטלבוים), also known as the Yismach Moshe, was the Rebbe of Sziget-Ujhely, (Maramarossziget / Satoraljaujhely) in...

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