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Blum was born in 1872 in Paris to a moderately prosperous, middle class, assimilated Jewish family in the mercantile business. [2] His father Abraham, a merchant, was born in Alsace and moved to Paris in 1848. [3] Blum's mother, Adèle-Marie-Alice Picart was born in Paris, but her family likewise originated in Alsace. [3]
Józef Garliński, Polish best-selling writer who wrote numerous books in both English and Polish on Auschwitz and World War II, including the best selling 'Fighting Auschwitz'. Survived and died in 2005. Leon Greenman (18 December 1910 – 7 March 2008), British anti-fascism campaigner. Survived and died in 2008.
Memoirs of Leon Daudet. New York: The Dial Press. Guillou, Robert (1918). Leon Daudet, son Caractère, ses Romans, sa Politique. Paris: Société d'Éditions Levé. Kershaw, Alister (1988). An Introduction to Léon Daudet, with Selections from His Writings. Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Press ISBN 0-930126-23-8. Leeds, Stanton B. (1940).
Jewish Lives is a biography series published by Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation. It was founded in 2006 and the first book was published in 2010. [1]The series explores the lives of influential Jews from antiquity through the present, including Moses, Albert Einstein, Louis D. Brandeis, Barbra Streisand, David Ben-Gurion, Emma Goldman, and more.
This is a partial list of notable democratic socialists. Politicians. Heads of government ... Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (1936–1937; 1938) [10]
René Goscinny (1926–1977), comic book author and editor, co-creator of Asterix [209] [210] Élie Halévy (1760–1826), Bavarian-born French Hebrew poet, author and secretary of the Jewish community of Paris; father of Fromental Halévy and Léon Halévy [211] Marek Halter (born 1936), writer and activist; Léon Hollaenderski (1808–1878 ...
Henri Reichenbach (born 29 January 1891 in Paris, died September 1941 in New York) was a French businessman who co-founded Prisunic in 1931. Forced to emigrate because of his Jewish heritage, he committed suicide after the Nazi invasion of France.
In 1996, Penguin Books published as a paperback A Complete Annotated Listing of Penguin Classics and Twentieth-Century Classics (ISBN 0-14-771090-1). This article covers editions in the series: black label (1970s), colour-coded spines (1980s), the most recent editions (2000s), and Little Clothbound Classics Series (2020s).