Hinko Urbach


Urbach was born in Morvka, Czech Republic to Jewish parents on September 29, 1872. His mother died when he wasyears old. After his father remarried, Urbach was sent away from home to learn craft as a shoemakers apprentice. Later he was sent to cheder in esk Tn. After Cheder, he was educated at Moses Sofers yeshiva in Bratislava. After completing his studies at yeshiva, he stayed there for a time and worked as a teacher. In 1898, he enrolled at higher Master of rabbinical school in Budapest, Hungary. There he meet his future wife Sara Urbach. Simultaneously he attended the Faculty of Philosophy in Budapest, study of comparative philology of Semitic languages, from which he graduated in 1904.

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