Alexander Geller

Alexander Geller was born in Saabor in Silesia [today: Zabór in Poland] as the legitimate son of Samuel Geller and Ernestine, née Menasche. Nothing has survived about his childhood and youth.

After finishing school, he became a journalist and moved to Vienna. There he first became editor-in-chief and publisher of the 'Jüdische Zeitung'. The newspaper, which appeared between 1907 and 1920 and whose publishers and editors-in-chief included Isidor Margulies, Alexander Geller, Moses Waldmann and David Nebenzahl, saw its task as 'promoting the political education of Jews and helping to ensure that national Jewish aspirations always remain filled with a politically liberal [sic] and socially progressive spirit'.