Cecília Wohl
Hungarian philanthropist
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Cecília Wohl (Hungarian: Polacsek Mihályné; Wohl Cecília, French: Cécile Wohl, aka Cecil Wohl; 1862, Vilnius – 5 September 1939, Budapest district 1) was a Lithuanian-Viennese master, Budapestian salonist known as "Cecil mama", a daughter of the senior teacher of Jewish history at the Vilna rabbinic seminary Osher Leyzerovich Vol, and the mother of the Polányi brothers.