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Aryeh Feigenbaum born Leopold Feigenbaum (born September 19, 1885 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , † 1981 ) was an Austrian-Israeli ophthalmologist , non-fiction author and Zionist .

Feigenbaum received his doctorate in 1911 from the medical faculty of the University of Vienna . In 1913 he emigrated to Palestine . "Feigenbaum achieved great fame in Palestine and later in Israel as a leading specialist in ophthalmology."

His eldest daughter, Shirtah Zinder (1916–1987), later worked in the secretariat of the Israel National Commission for Unesco.

literature

  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 2351.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Günther Windhager. Leopold Weiss alias Muhammad Asad: from Galicia to Arabia 1900–1927. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2002, pp. 82–83. ISBN 9783205993933
  2. Günther Windhager. Leopold Weiss alias Muhammad Asad: from Galicia to Arabia 1900–1927. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2002, p. 191.