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41KINGSLEY (originally Kirschner), SIDNEY — (1906–1995), U.S. playwright. His first success was Men in White (produced by the Group Theater in 1933), a play with a background of hospital life which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1934, and was made into a motion picture. A meticulous researcher,… …
42KOMLÓS (originally Kredens), ALADÁR — (1892–1980), Hungarian poet, author, and literary scholar. Komlós was born at Alsósztregova. After the 1918–19 revolution he went to Vienna and for a time was on the editorial boards of the radical newspapers Bécsi Magyar Ujság and Jövő. Between… …
43KOMOLY (originally Kohn), OTTÓ — (1892–1945), Hungarian Zionist leader. Born in Budapest, he studied engineering. He was wounded in World War I and received military awards. Afterward a member in the reserves, he rose to the rank of captain, an unusual achievement for a Jew at …
44MARCOUSSIS (originally Marcous), LOUIS — (1883–1941), French painter. Marcoussis was born in Warsaw. As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow he was one of the avant garde Young Poland group which was strongly inclined to French culture. In 1903 he moved to Paris to study.… …
45MERON (originally Maierzuk), HANNA — (1923– ), Israeli actress and star of the cameri Theater in Tel Aviv. Born in Berlin, she appeared on the German stage and in Fritz Lang s movie M as a child before going to Palestine in 1933. She trained at the Habimah Studio, served in a… …
46RUSSELL (originally Levy), HENRY — (1813–1900), English composer and singer. Born at Sheerness, Russell was a prodigy who performed as a child before King George IV. He studied music at Bologna and in his thirties spent many years touring the U.S. and Canada. After his return to… …
47SHIMONI (originally Shimonovitz), DAVID — (1886–1956), Hebrew poet. He was born in Bobruisk, district of Minsk, Russia, the son of a learned maskil. Shimoni studied with private tutors and read avidly, especially in the impressive library belonging to the father of his childhood friend,… …
48SZENES (originally Schlesinger), BÉLA — (1894–1927), Hungarian author. Szenes was born in Budapest. He joined the editorial boards of various newspapers, and was noted for his feuilletons (known as Szenes ember, which, in Hungarian, has the additional meaning of coalman ). Szenes wrote …
49YALON (originally Distenfeld), HANOCH — (Henoch; 1886–1970), Hebrew linguist. Born in Trutky, near Lopatin in Galicia, Yalon was influenced by his older brothers who had become maskilim, and became well versed in the Hebrew literature of the haskalah . At the age of 22 he went to… …
50Advisory Council (originally Committee) for the Education of Romanies and Other Travellers — (ACERT) United Kingdom. Chair: David Cannon. In 1988 the National Gypsy Education Council split, with some of the committee forming ACERT. The council has widened its work with Gypsies from mere education …