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== Early life == Spiegel was born to a German-speaking Jewish family<ref>{{cite book |last=Fraser-Cavassoni |first=Natasha |title=Sam Spiegel |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2003 |pages=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TtYex8ky_MEC&q=%22only%20german%20was%20spoken:%22 |isbn=978-0-253-20493-6}}</ref> in [[Jarosław]], [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (later modern [[Poland]]). His parents were Regina and Simon Spiegel, a tobacco wholesaler.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Kenneth |title=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1981–1985 |date=1998 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=978-0-684-80492-7 |page=752 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3URAQAAMAAJ&q=Regina+Simon+Spiegel}}</ref> He received his education at the [[University of Vienna]]. He had an older brother, [[Shalom Spiegel]] (1899-c. 1984), who was a professor of medieval Hebrew poetry.
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