Bernard Friedberg was an

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, scholar and bibliographer. Friedberg was born in

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on December 19, 1876. He moved to

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in 1900; initially he worked for publisher Isaac Kauffmann and later set up his own firm. During

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his library was destroyed and his daughter and son were killed along with her husband and two daughters. Friedberg escaped to

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and later went to

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

. He died on January 27, 1961. Friedberg published some of his work.

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1876 births 1961 deaths Writers from Kraków Jewish emigrants from Austria to Mandatory Palestine after the Anschluss Austrian Hebraists {{Austria-academic-bio-stub