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Jacob Israël de Haan

Dutch lawyer, legal scholar, diplomat, journalist, novelist and poet, assassinated by the haganah (1881-1924).

Born December 31st, 1881 in Smilde.

Died June 30th, 1924 at 42 years old in Jaffa Road.

Occupations
journalist, jurist, poet, poet lawyer, university teacher, writer

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur Schopenhauer