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In 1878 the thirty-six-year-old Hermann Cohen married the eighteen-year-old pianist Martha Lewandowski (1860-1942). She was the daughter of Louis Lewandowski, the chief cantor of Berlin and a celebrated composer of Jewish liturgical music. Martha was deeply connected to Hermann's life and intellectual legacy, surviving him long after his death in 1918. Tragically, as an elderly widow decades later, she became a victim of the Nazi regime and died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. The marriage between Hermann and Martha

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