A constellation of figures
people.title
people.description
Moses Mendelssohn
1729 — 1786
Founder of the Haskalah, philosopher of religious freedom and translator of the Pentateuch into German.
Bertha Pappenheim
1859 — 1936
Founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund, social reformer, and translator of early modern Yiddish women's writing into German.
Gustav Landauer
1870 — 1919
Anarchist philosopher, translator of Shakespeare and Kropotkin, and short-lived commissioner of the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
Jenny Hirsch
1829 — 1902
German writer, translator and journalist; pioneer of the women's movement and translator of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women into German.
Franz Rosenzweig
1886 — 1929
Author of Der Stern der Erlösung and, with Buber, of the Verdeutschung der Schrift — a translation of the Hebrew Bible into a German that listens for its origin.
Gertrud Kolmar
1894 — 1943
Lyric poet whose late work, written under forced labour in Berlin, became one of the most precise records of inner exile.
Walter Benjamin
1892 — 1940
Critic, translator and philosopher of language whose Aufgabe des Übersetzers (1923) reframed translation as the afterlife of the original.