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Birnbaum was born in Vienna into an Eastern European Jewish family with roots in Austrian Galicia and Hungary. [3] His father, Menachem Mendel Birnbaum, a merchant, hailed from Ropshitz, Galicia (now Poland), and his mother, Miriam Birnbaum (née Seelenfreund), who was born in Carpathian Rus (now Ukraine), of a family with illustrious rabbinic lineage, had moved as a child to Tarnow, Galicia ...
George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three-quarters of a century.
Birnbaum was the second son of the Jewish philosopher Nathan Birnbaum and his wife Rosa Korngut. Birnbaum married Ernestine (Tina) Esther Helfmann, with whom he had two children: Rafael Zwi and Hana. Birnbaum lived in Berlin from 1911 until 1914, and again from 1919 until 1933.
Nathan Birnbaum in the 1910s, the main thinker and activist behind Diaspora Nationalism.. Golus nationalism (Yiddish: גלות נאַציאָנאַליזם Golus natsionalizm after golus, Hebrew: לאומיות גולוס, romanized: Gālūṯ leumiyút), or diaspora nationalism, is a national movement of the Jewish people that argues for furthering Jewish national and cultural life in centers ...
[ae] Birnbaum, though he militated against a latent trend in Jewish nationalism that "craved to answer antisemitic nationalist chauvinism in kind", still thought race was the foundation of nationality, [57] Jabotinsky wrote that Jewish national integrity relies on "racial purity", [52] [af] that "(t)he feeling of national self-identity is ...
The Basel Program was drafted by a committee elected on Sunday 29 August 1897 [1] comprising Max Nordau (heading the committee), [2] Nathan Birnbaum, Alexander Mintz, Siegmund Rosenberg, Saul Rafael Landau, [3] [2] [4] together with Hermann Schapira and Max Bodenheimer who were added to the committee on the basis of them having both drafted previous similar programs (including the "Kölner ...
Nathan Birnbaum, a Jew from Vienna, was the original father of Political Zionism, yet ever since he defected away from his own movement, Theodor Herzl has become known as the face of modern Zionism. In 1890, Birnbaum coined the term "Zionism" and the phrase "Political Zionism" two years later.
Birnbaum (German: "pear tree") is a German-language family name common among Ashkenazi Jews. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Adam Birnbaum (born 1979), American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger