Word: lemberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insects. Vaccines made from dead typhus viruses provide immunity from the disease, but such vaccines are difficult to make, for Rickettsia prowazeki cannot be easily cultured in artificial mediums, thrives and multiplies best in its natural habitat. Chief European vaccine maker is Professor Rudolf Weigl of the University of Lemberg, Poland. Last week the Paris weekly Marianne described a visit to Professor Weigl's laboratory...
Yiddish Theatre, Like many other Jews who have reached artistic eminence, Muni developed his art in close contact with his own race. He was born Muni Weisenfreund in a part of Austria which is now Poland in the little town of Lemberg, which he left at the age of one month and has never seen since. His parents were traveling actors who journeyed from one European capital to another, performing in the ghettos. The nomadic life of the Weisenfreunds took them to London, where Muni went to his first school, and later, when Muni was six, to the goal...
Because a singer heard her and liked her playing, Marcelline Kochanska was admitted to the Lemberg Conservatory where her teacher was a Wilhelm Stengel whom she married in 1877. When she was in her teens Stengel took her to see Franz Liszt who said: "Kleine, you have three pairs of wings on which to fly to fame. You can become a great pianist, a great violinist or a great singer." Sembrich chose to sing and took her mother's maiden name. Her début was in Athens...
...lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech of a Jewish rabbi to his congregation, crediting the story to an "eminent Englishman, Sir John Retcliffe." By 1912 the story became the "stenographic report" of a speech at a Jewish congress in Lemberg...
...Revenge yourselves on the Jews!" they cried. "They were responsible for Waclawski's death!" They fell to fighting, injured 25 Jews, trampled girl students. The trepidating rector had the University closed for three days. Rigid policing alone prevented disorder. Rioting broke out also in Breslau, Cracow, Posen, Lemberg...