Alfred Nossig (18 April 1864â€"22 February 1943) was a Polish
sculptor, musician, writer, and public activist.[1] During World War
II he was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto where he became a member of
the Judenrat. He was accused of collaboration and executed by a
resistance organization.Alfred Nossig was born in 1864 to a wealthy
family in Lemberg (now Lviv), which was then part of the Austrian
Empire but is now in Ukraine.[1][2] Nossig's father exposed him to
German culture and was an activist for Jewish rights in Galicia,
serving as secretary of the Jewish community there.[1]In the early
1880s, Polish romanticism inspired Nossig to formulate ideas about
liberating Jewish culture from the constraints of tradition, causing
him to express these ideas in the periodical Ojczyzna (The Fatherland)
and in an organization (which he himself founded) called Przymierze
Braci (Union of Brothers).[1] He was a pioneer in the field of Jewish
demography during his time as a student at Lemberg University, winning
a prize in 1884 from the university senate for his essay "O ludności"
(On Population).[1]
sculptor, musician, writer, and public activist.[1] During World War
II he was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto where he became a member of
the Judenrat. He was accused of collaboration and executed by a
resistance organization.Alfred Nossig was born in 1864 to a wealthy
family in Lemberg (now Lviv), which was then part of the Austrian
Empire but is now in Ukraine.[1][2] Nossig's father exposed him to
German culture and was an activist for Jewish rights in Galicia,
serving as secretary of the Jewish community there.[1]In the early
1880s, Polish romanticism inspired Nossig to formulate ideas about
liberating Jewish culture from the constraints of tradition, causing
him to express these ideas in the periodical Ojczyzna (The Fatherland)
and in an organization (which he himself founded) called Przymierze
Braci (Union of Brothers).[1] He was a pioneer in the field of Jewish
demography during his time as a student at Lemberg University, winning
a prize in 1884 from the university senate for his essay "O ludności"
(On Population).[1]
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