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Nahida Lazarus (born February 3, 1849) was a

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. She was born in

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into a German Christian family. She was married first to Dr. Max Remy (in her writings she still signed herself Nahida Remy), after whose death she became a convert to Judaism and married the German philosopher Professor

Moritz Lazarus Moritz Lazarus (15 September 1824 – 13 April 1903), born at Filehne, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, was a German-Jewish philosopher, psychologist, and a vocal opponent of the antisemitism of his time. Life and education He was born at ...

in 1895. Nahida Lazarus contributed many essays to the ''Vossische Zeitung,'' ''Monatszeitung,'' and ''Westermann's Monatshefte'' about history, art, sociology, and theatrical criticism. She was the author of several dramas, including ''Die Rechnung ohne Wirth'' (1870), ''Wo die Orangen blühen'' (1872), ''Constanze'' 1879, ''Die Grafen Eckardstein'' (1880), ''Schicksalswege'' (1880), ''Domenico,'' ''Nationale Gegensätze'' (1884), ''Sicilianische Novellen'' (1885), and ''Liebeszauber,'' (1887). She wrote the essays "Geheime Gewalten" in 1890, "Das Jüdische Weib" in 1892, "Das Gebet in Bibel und Talmud" in 1892, "Kulturstudien über das Judentum," in 1893, "Humanität im Judentum," in 1894. She wrote "Ich suchte Dich," an autobiography, in 1898. After the death of her husband, she prepared a volume of his "Lebenserinnerungen".

Sources

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LAZARUS, NAHIDA RUTH on the Jewish Encyclopedia

External links

Guide to the Nahida Ruth Lazarus Collection
at the

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