Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch

male, deceased (1957)
Polish-American, Jewish person, Jewish film and theatre, yiddish, hebrew, writer…I.L. Peretz
Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Asch (1 January 1880, Kutno - 10 July 1957, London) was a Polish-born American novelist, dramatist, and essayist...
Isaac Leib Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz

male, deceased (1915)
Hasidic Judaism, hasidic jew, writer, Zhytomyr, short stories, Yiddish-language writer…I.L. Peretz, Yitskhok Leybush Peretz
Isaac Leib Peretz, best known as I.L. Peretz, was a modernist Yiddish language author and playwright. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine, and Sol...
David Pinski

David Pinski

male, deceased (1959)
Columbia University, Family Tsvi, Isaac Sheftel, I.L. Peretz, Labor Zionism, Yiddish language
David Pinski (1872-1959) was a Yiddish language writer, probably best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to...

I. M. Weissenberg

male, deceased (1938)
yiddish, shtetl, Yiddish-language writer, I.L. Peretz, Weissenberg, Litvaks
I. M. (Isaac Meir) Weissenberg (1881-1938) was a Yiddish-language writer in Warsaw, Poland. A disciple of I.L. Peretz, he began writing in 1904 and...

Sarah Bas Tovim

female
Jewish, I.L. Peretz, "Der Zivug", Jewish liturgy, Shloshe Shearim, Mordechai of Brisk
Sarah Bas Tovim (lived late 17th and early 18th century) was a Ukrainian Jew, author of "Shloshe Shearim" ("Three Portals") the most widely...