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If you thought you were productive today, consider that Vicki Baum, a Jewish writer born in Vienna in 1888, wrote over 50 novels in her lifetime. Also, she was a boxer. Born Hedwig Baum to a troubled Austrian family—her father decried reading as a “secret vice”—Baum switched to writing after giving up the harp. Baum’s […]

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When the first Miss India beauty pageant took place in 1947, it was no surprise that a stunning Bollywood starlet named Pramila won. She was a natural beauty, with wide, sparkling eyes and a warm smile. She was also a Baghdadi Jew, born Esther Victoria Abraham. Jews have always been a religious minority in India – […]

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In Weimar Berlin, the stars seemed to align for German Jewish photographer Marianne Breslauer. Born into a family of art lovers, Breslauer was encouraged to pursue photography. She had been a pupil at the first photography school for women, studied with Man Ray in Paris, and by 1930 was back in Berlin, working at the famed Ullstein […]

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