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Reuven Fahn (1878–1939/1944), was a self-made historian, ethnographer, epigraphist, poet, writer, journalist, and ardent Zionist of Galician origin. Already in his youth he could speak and write literary Hebrew, German, Yiddish, and apparently, Polish and Ruthenian (Ukrainian). At the age of 13 he was a Jewish nationalist and admirer of Erets Yisra’el. He published his first journalist report in Hebrew...
Zarach Zarachowicz was born in Halicz (now Halych) in 1890. He was the son of Mojsz and Estera neé Eszwowicz, members of the local Karaite community (dzhymat), whose origins reputedly go back to the mid-13th century. In 1915, Zarachowicz left Halicz for Simferopol in the Crimea. This is where he went to a Karaite religious school. After World War II he returned to his home town and, upon securing...
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