Alfred Nossig   

Alfred Nossig was a writer, sculptor, and Zionist theoretician whose interest in Jewish emigration made him a collaborator with the German authorities. 

Nossig was born in Lvov in 1864 and attended several universities, studying natural sciences, medicine, law, and philosophy. In his youth he favoured assimilation into Polish culture, but later he became a Zionist. 

Nossig was active as an artist, intellectual, and founder of Jewish public projects and institutions. He made a name for himself, with his many talents and his efforts to increase the self-confidence of Jews and improve their self-image.

His career was also marked by abrupt shifts and sharp changes of direction, he proved to be unstable and inconsistent in his views as well as in his politics. In 1892 he moved to Vienna and in 1894 to Paris, in 1900 he took up residence in Berlin.

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