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Cecília Wohl

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Cecília Wohl (Hungarian: Polacsek Mihályné; Wohl Cecília, French: Cécile Wohl, aka Cecil Wohl; 1862, Vilnius – 5 September 1939, Budapest district 1) was a Lithuanian-Viennese master, Budapestian salonist known as "Cecil mama", a daughter of the senior teacher of Jewish history at the Vilna rabbinic seminary Osher Leyzerovich Vol,[1] and the mother of Karl Polanyi and Michael Polanyi.


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  1. ^ See detailed genealogical information on the Vol family at JewishGen.org (Lithuania database).