B’nai B’rith
Jewish association, established in the USA in 1843, spread across the entire world today. It carries out welfare work among other activities.
Bachmann, Ingeborg
1926-1973, Austrian writer considered tob e one oft he most important German-language writers of the 20th century
Banat
A region in Europe that stretches today over Romania (two-thirds of the surface area), Serbia and Hungary. In the 18th century mainly German settlers moved there, who were also referred to as the “Danube Swabians”. The population mix today has been greatly changed by a mass exodus.
Bar Mizwah
For girls Bat Mitzwah, describes the Jewish coming of age ritual.
Barker, Ernest
1874 – 1960, political scientist, professor at Cambridge University
Benjamin, Walter
1892 – 1940, German philosopher, literary critic and translator. His essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Das Passagen-Werk (The Arcades Project) which remained a fragment, both written in Parisian exile in 1935, are probably his most famous works.
Bermann Fischer, Brigitte
1905-1991, German typesetter and calligraphist. After their return from exile she managed alongside her husband, Gottfried Bermann, the Bermann Fischer Verlag.
Bermann-Fischer, Gottfried
(1897-1995), publisher, managed the S. Fischer publishing house after the death of its founder Samuel Fischer; 1936 move to Vienna along with the publishing house, 1938 on to Stockholm
Bermann, Gottfried
1897-1995, studied medicine, but entered the publishing house his father-in-law at the latter’s request in 1925 and also assumed the name Fischer after getting married. He retired in 1963.
Bernhard, Georg
(1875-1944), publicist, editor and head of Vossische Zeitung, Berlin, from 1909 to 1930. He founded the Pariser Tageblatt in 1933 in Paris, which he ran under the name Pariser Tageszeitung until 1938; in 1941 he went into exile in the USA
