Baal Shem Tov

1698–1760

Polish founder of Hasidic Judaism (1698–1760)

Baal Shem

Born in Okopy

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• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Voltaire (1694–1778)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
• Adam Smith (1723–1790)

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