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    Title

  • Micha Josef Berdyczewski

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    cir1900?

  • Place of Publication

    Berlin

  • Summary

    Photoportrait of the writer Micha Josef Berdyczewski in Berlin.

  • Depicted

    Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph, 1865-1921

  • Subject

    Authors; Portraits

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Efraim Frisch Collection, AR 1034

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

The author and scholar Micha Josef Berdyczewski was born in the Ukraine in 1865 into a family of Hasidic rabbis. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Breslau, and Bern, before settling in Berlin, where he wrote under the adopted surname Bin-Gorion in Hebrew, Yiddish, and German, particularly touching on pre-modern Jewish myths and legends. M.J. Berdyczewski died in Berlin in 1921.

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Citation

Micha Josef Berdyczewski, Leo Baeck Institute, F 1838.