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There are two sorts of biography: the biography a famous person writes for his admirers, because the public likes to know everything about celebrities, and [the] autobiography, usually written because…
Contributor:
Moses Leib Lilienblum
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1873
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I was born on 19 February 1758 in Nový Bydžov [in Bohemia] of well-to-do parents who destined me at birth to be a rabbi, a common practice among the Israelites then. For at that time, when all…
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Peter Beer
Places:
Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1839