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Leon Borkofsky 1899 - 1978

Leon Borkofsky of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on January 20, 1899, and died at age 79 years old in November 1978.

Leon Borkofsky
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA 19141
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In 1899, in the year that Leon Borkofsky was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1915, at the age of 16 years old, Leon was alive when in April, the Ottoman Empire rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Turkey. As their actions continued through the next several years, an estimated 600,000 to 1 million Armenians were killed by Turkish soldiers.
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Borkofsky, Bella (Dec 15, 1903 - Jan 1972) Borkofsky, Philip (Jul 18, 1891 - Mar 15, 1967) Borkofsky, Anna (Sep 30, 1895 - May 1982)
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