Moyshe Kulbak

male
Smarhon, Jewish person, Soviet poet, Yiddish-language poet, poet, Soviet writer…Yiddish language
Moyshe Kulbak (1896-1940?), was a Yiddish language writer, born in Smarhon in Belarus to a Jewish family. He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva in...
Chava Rosenfarb

Chava Rosenfarb

female, 89 years old
Les Belles Soeurs, bergen-belsen, yiddish, writer, tel aviv, Holocaust…Yiddish-language poet, Yiddish literature, poet, Yiddish-language writer
Chava Rosenfarb, is a Holocaust survivor and Polish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War Two Yiddish...
H. Leivick

H. Leivick

male, deceased (1962)
Leivick Halpern, writer, Jewish American, Yiddish-language poet, Yiddish theatre, The Golem…Yiddish-language writer, Yiddish language
H. Leivick (pen name of Leivick Halpern, December 1888-December 23, 1962) was a Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 "dramatic poem in eight...
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

female, 89 years old
yiddish, National Heritage Fellowship winner, Yiddish-language poet, the bronx, chernivtsi, bella
Beyle (or Bella) Schaechter-Gottesman (born August 7, 1920) is a Yiddish poet and songwriter.
Itzik Feffer

Itzik Feffer

male, deceased (1952)
Jewish, poet, World War II, yiddish, writer, Soviet poet…Yiddish-language poet, Yiddish-language writer
Itzik Feffer was a Soviet Yiddish poet who fell victim to Stalin's purges. Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod "uyezd" (district)...
Anna Margolin

Anna Margolin

female, deceased (1952)
Jewish, hebrew, poet, Yiddish-language poet, American, líder…Yiddish language
Anna Margolin is the pen name of Rosa Levensbaum a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet. Born in Brest, Belarus, then...

Leib Kvitko

male, deceased (1952)
Jewish, poet, yiddish, Soviet poet, Russian, ussr…Yiddish-language poet, Night of the Murdered Poet
Leib Kvitko (October 15, 1890 — August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Je...

David Hofstein

male, deceased (1952)
russian revolution of 1917, pogrom, poet, communist party, yiddish, Jewish…Yiddish-language poet, ukrainian language, Yiddish language
David Hofstein (1889 - August 12, 1952) was a Yiddish poet. He was born in Ukraine and received a traditional Jewish education; his application to...

Srul Bronshtein

male, deceased (1943)
poet, yiddish, romanian, Soviet poet, Russian, soviet…Yiddish-language poet, Modernist poet
Srul Bronshtein was a Romanian and Soviet Yiddish-language poet.

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern

male
poet, yiddish, German, galicia, Yiddish-language poet, modernist poetry
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886, Zlotshev, Galicia-1932) was an American Yiddish poet. Having grown up with a traditional Jewish upbringing in eastern...