A Life Between Borders In the quiet town of Galánta, within the reaches of Austria-Hungary, a boy named Herman Stern entered a large and lively family as the fifth of fourteen children. His early years were shaped by the devout Jewish household of Josef Israel Stern and Rosa Wertheimer, where the sounds of Hungarian, Hebrew, and German wove through the daily life of the home. Though he began his education in Talmud and business schools…