WLajos Blau was a Hungarian scholar and publicist born at Putnok, Hungary. Blau was educated at three different yeshivot, among them that of Presburg. In 1880–1888, he was a student at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest. At the same time, he studied philosophy and Orientalia at the Budapest University, received there the degree of Ph.D. cum laude in 1887, and the rabbinical diploma at the Seminary in 1888.
WJulius Eisenstein was a Polish-Jewish-American anthologist, diarist, encyclopedist, Hebraist, historian, philanthropist, and Orthodox polemicist born in Międzyrzec Podlaski, a town with a large Jewish majority in what was then Congress Poland. He died in New York City at the age of 101.
WRichard James Horatio Gottheil was an English American Semitic scholar, Zionist, and founding father of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
WLazar, Grünhut Hungarian rabbi and writer. He is especially renowned for his research & publications in the field of Midrash.
WAlexander Harkavy was a Russian-born American writer, lexicographer and linguist.
WJoseph Herman Hertz was a British Rabbi and biblical scholar. He held the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and the Holocaust.
WEmil Gustav Hirsch was a Luxembourgish-born Jewish American biblical scholar, Reform rabbi, and contributing editor to numerous articles of The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906).
WJoseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.
WMeyer Kayserling was a German rabbi and historian.
WKaufmann Kohler was a German-born Jewish American biblical scholar and critic, theologian, Reform rabbi, and contributing editor to numerous articles of The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906).
WHenrietta Szold was a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Palestine dedicated to a binational solution.