Cecília Wohl Explained

Cecília Wohl (Hungarian: [[Polacsek Mihály]]né; 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.

References

• http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/egyeb/lexikon/eletrajz/html/ABC11587/12321.htm
• http://www.kfki.hu/chemonet/polanyi/9702/szapor.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121001061114/http://homepage3.nifty.com/thinkers/plnykcv.htm (Japanese)

See also: Polányi (family).

Notes and References

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