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[td]==Biography==[/td]
[td]==Biography==[/td]
[td]Ulla Hirschfeld was born in [[Gliwice|Gleiwitz]], [[Silesia]] into a scholarly [[Jews|Jewish]] family. Her father, Hirsch (Max) Hirschfeld, was a rabbi and [[Philosophy of religion|philosopher of religion]],{{r|friedrichs}} while her maternal grandfather, [[Solomon Eger]], served as [[Chief Rabbi]] of [[PoznaΕ„|Posen]]. She received her education at home, and later in [[WrocΕ‚aw|Breslau]] and [[Vienna]].[/td]
[td]Ulla Hirschfeld was born in [[Gliwice|Gleiwitz]], [[Silesia]], into a scholarly [[Jews|Jewish]] family. Her father, Hirsch (Max) Hirschfeld, was a rabbi and [[Philosophy of religion|philosopher of religion]],{{r|friedrichs}} while her maternal grandfather, [[Solomon Eger]], served as [[Chief Rabbi]] of [[PoznaΕ„|Posen]]. She received her education at home and later in [[WrocΕ‚aw|Breslau]] and [[Vienna]].[/td]
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[td]In 1869, she married Rabbi Dr. Lazar Frankfurter, a professor of [[Italian language]] and [[Italian literature|literature]],{{r|brummer}} with whom she bore three children, including {{ill|Richard Frankfurter|de}}. She took up residence in [[Berlin]] soon after her husband's death in 1878, and married Jewish industrialist Louis Wolff in 1880. She would have two more children from her second marriage.[/td]
[td]In 1869, she married Rabbi Dr. Lazar Frankfurter, an [[Italian language]] and [[Italian literature|literature]] professor,{{r|brummer}} with whom she bore three children, including {{ill|Richard Frankfurter|de}}. She took up residence in [[Berlin]] soon after her husband's death in 1878 and married Jewish industrialist Louis Wolff in 1880. She would have two more children from her second marriage.[/td]
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[td]She died on 1 January 1924 at the age of 74.{{r|jta_obit}}[/td]
[td]She died on 1 January 1924 at the age of 74.{{r|jta_obit}}[/td]
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[td]==Work==[/td]
[td]==Work==[/td]
[td]Wolff-Frankfurter's first production, ''Ein Vampyr'', appeared in 1876 at the {{ill|Lobetheater|de}} in Breslau, and was well received.{{r|summers}} This was followed in 1878 by ''Der Herr College''. She thereupon gave up writing for the stage, and devoted her literary activity to stories and novels.{{r|jacob}} Her publications often explored the tension between tradition and modernity in the Jewish family,{{r|krobb}} and the isolated experiences of [[Jewish ghettos in Europe|ghetto]] and [[shtetl]] life.{{r|levenson}}[/td]
[td]Wolff-Frankfurter's first production, ''Ein Vampyr'', appeared in 1876 at the {{ill|Lobetheater|de}} in Breslau, and was well received.{{r|summers}} This was followed in 1878 by ''Der Herr College''. Thereupon, she gave up writing for the stage and devoted her literary activity to stories and novels.{{r|jacob}} Her publications often explored the tension between tradition and modernity in the Jewish family,{{r|krobb}} and the isolated experiences of [[Jewish ghettos in Europe|ghetto]] and [[shtetl]] life.{{r|levenson}}[/td]
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[td]As a journalist, she headed the Berlin feature section of the ''Hamburgischer Correpondent'' newspaper for over 15 years, and wrote for other newspapers and magazines, especially for the ''[[Berliner Tageblatt]]'', the ''Jahrbuch fΓΌr jΓΌdische Geschichte und Literatur'', the ''[[Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums]]'' and the ''Breslauer Zeitung''. She was also the Berlin [[correspondent]] of the ''[[New Yorker Staats-Zeitung]]''.{{r|jta_obit}}[/td]
[td]As a journalist, she headed the Berlin feature section of the ''Hamburgischer Correpondent'' newspaper for over 15 years, and wrote for other newspapers and magazines, especially for the ''[[Berliner Tageblatt]]'', the ''Jahrbuch fΓΌr jΓΌdische Geschichte und Literatur'', the ''[[Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums]],'' and the ''Breslauer Zeitung''. She was also the Berlin [[correspondent]] of the ''[[New Yorker Staats-Zeitung]]''.{{r|jta_obit}}[/td]
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[td]==Partial bibliography==[/td]
[td]==Partial bibliography==[/td]

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