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Kahn, Louis Isadore (1901–74)

Martin Donougho

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...Kahn, Louis Isadore Louis Kahn was born on 20 February 1901 in Kingisepp on the island of Ösel, Russia (the island is now called Saaremaa in Estonia). Kahn emigrated with his family to Philadelphia in 1906 and became a naturalized citizen...

Köhler, Wolfgang (1887–1967)

David J. Murray

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...Köhler, Wolfgang Wolfgang Köhler was born of German parents on 21 January 1887 in Reval, Estonia, and died on 11 June 1967 at Enfield, Massachusetts. His family moved to Germany when he was six. He studied philosophy, history, and natural...

Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem (1881–1983)

Emanuel S. Goldsmith

Emanuel S. Goldsmith

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...Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was born in the small Lithuanian town of Svencionys on 11 June 1881. His mother, Anna, had been raised in the Hasidic tradition of piety and mysticism while his father, Rabbi Israel Kaplan, was an adherent...

Gurwitsch, Aron (1901–73)

Lester Embree

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...Gurwitsch, Aron Aron Gurwitsch was born on 17 January 1901 in Vilnius, Lithuania, which was then part of Imperial Russia. He was descended from rabbinical scholars on both sides of his family; his Westernizing father owned forests...