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Cassirer is a surname of Yiddish origin (קאַסירער‎ ''kasirer'', which means ''Cashier''; German: Kassierer). Notable people with the surname include: *
Wilfred Cass Wilfred Cass CBE FRSA (11 November 1924 – 18 April 2022) co-founded the Cass Sculpture Foundation. Biography Cass was born in Berlin and came from the Jewish Cassirer family. His great uncle, Paul Cassirer, was a significant dealer for the impr ...
, born ''Wolfgang Cassirer'' (1924–2022), German-Jewish founder of Cass Sculpture Foundation * Bruno Cassirer (1872–1941), German-Jewish publisher and gallery owner in Berlin * Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), German-Jewish philosopher * Fritz Cassirer (1871–1926), German-Jewish conductor *
Heinz Cassirer Heinrich (Heinz) Walter Cassirer (9 August 1903 – 20 February 1979) was a Kantian philosopher, son of a famous German philosopher, Ernst Cassirer. Being Jews, the Cassirer family fled the Nazis in the 1930s. As a refugee scholar, Heinz went to ...
(1903–1979), German-German philosopher * Julius Cassirer (1841–1924), German-Jewish industrialist and art collector *
Paul Cassirer Paul Cassirer (21 February 1871, in Görlitz – 7 January 1926, in Berlin) was a German art dealer and editor who played a significant role in the promotion of the work of artists of the Berlin Secession and of French Impressionists and Post-Im ...
(1871–1926), German-Jewish art dealer and editor *
Richard Cassirer Richard Cassirer (23 April 1868 – 20 August 1925) was a German neurologist born into a Jewish family in Breslau. After receiving his medical doctorate in 1891, he became assistant at the psychiatric clinic in Breslau under Karl Wernicke (1848& ...
(1868–1925), German-Jewish neurologist


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Jerome P. Kassirer Jerome P. Kassirer (born 1932 in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, New York (state), New York) is an American nephrologist, medical researcher, and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was the editor-in-chief of the ''New England Journal ...
(born 1932), American nephrologist


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