Early Years
Balaban was born in 1877 in the city of Lviv (then known as Lemberg in Austria-Hungary's centre of Polish Galicia). He received a traditional education at home and traditional Jewish schooling (Hebrew language and Bible study) in a cheder.
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“Parents ... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfil the promise of their early years.”
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