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Born February 8, 1833 • Zvenigorod • Russia
Died March 2, 1909 (aged 76) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Notable Family Members father Joseph Yozel, Baron Günzburg
Joseph, Baron Günzburg
Russian philanthropist and banker
Sir Moses Montefiore.
Sir Moses Montefiore, Baronet
British philanthropist
Sir Sigmund Sternberg
British philanthropist and entrepreneur
Simon Markovich Dubnow
Russian historian
Aaron David Gordon
Russian author and philosopher
David, Baron Günzburg
Russian Hebraist and community leader
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
Milner, Yuri
Yuri Milner
Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist
Savva Mamontov
Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontay
Soviet revolutionary and diplomat
Crémieux, lithograph by L.-E. Coedès
Adolphe Crémieux
French politician
Maurice, baron de Hirsch
European businessman
Frederic David Mocatta
British philanthropist and historian
Rebecca Gratz.
Rebecca Gratz
American philanthropist
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, detail of an etching by Richard Dighton, 1824.
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet
British political activist
Novikov, Nikolay Ivanovich
Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov
Russian writer
Babel, Isaac
Isaac Babel
Russian author
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam
Russian poet