Nahida Ruth Lazarus

Nahilda Lazarus (February 3, 1849, in Berlin - ?) was a German-Jewish author, essayist, scholar, and literary critic. She was born into a German Christian family. She was married first to Dr. Max Remy (in her writings she still signed herself Nahida Remy), after whose death she became a convert to Judaism and married Prof. Moritz Lazarus (1895).

Nahida Lazarus contributed many essays and novels, treating of history, art, and theatrical criticism, sociology to the Vossische Zeitung, Monatszeitung, and Westermann's Monatshefte.

She was also the author of several dramas. They include Die Rechnung ohne Wirth (1870), Wo die Orangen Blühen (1872), Constanze 1879, Die Grafen Eckardstein (1880) Schicksalswege (1880) Domenico, Nationale Gegensätze (1884), Sicilianische Novellen (1885), and Liebeszauber, (1887). She also wrote the essays "Geheime Gewalten" in 1890, "Das Jüdische Weib" in 1892, "Das Gebet in Bibel und Talmud" in 1892, "Kulturstudien über das Judentum," in 1893, "Humanität im Judentum," in 1894. She wrote "Ich Suchte Dich," an autobiography, in 1898. After the death of her husband, she prepared a volume of his "Lebenserinnerungen."

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)