Abraham Sutzkever (July 15, 1913 -) is a Yiddish poet and Holocaust-era partisan. (Alternate English spellings: Avrom Sutzkever, Avrohom Sutzkever,, Avrom Sutskever [used by Encyclopaedia Britannica]) Sutzkever was born in Smorgon, Poland (now Smarhon, Belarus). During the First World War his family fled to seek refuge in Siberia, then in 1922 migrated to Vilna (at that time, Wilno, Poland. He studied in cheder and attended gymnasium (academic high school), …

Marc Chagall (Russian: Марк Захарович Шага́л; Belarusian: Мойша Захаравіч Шагалаў "Mojša Zacharavič Šahałaŭ") (7 July 1887 - 28 March 1985) was a French painter of Russian-Jewish origin who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the 20th century, he is associated with the modern movements after impressionism.

Yehoash was the pen name for Solomon Blumgarten, a Yiddish-language poet. He was responsible for translating many works of world literature into Yiddish, including a very popular translation of the Bible.

Chaim Grade (b. April 4 1910, in Vilna, Russian Empire now Vilnius, Lithuania); d. April 26 1982, Los Angeles, California) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century. Chaim Grade, the son of Rabbi Shlomo Mordecai Grade, a Hebrew teacher and "maskil" (advocate of the European Enlightenment), received a secular as well as Jewish religious education. He learned briefly with Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, the Chazon Ish (1878-1953), …

Yiddish-language poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath was born in the The Bronx, New York, in 1958. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She began writing poetry in 1980, much of which was published in the journals "Yugntruf" and "Afn Shvel". Several appeared in English and Yiddish in "Hadassah" magazine, in the literary journal "Five Fingers Review" and in various anthologies.

Itzik Manger was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and ‘master tailor’ of the written word.

Israil (Israel) Bercovici (1921-1988) was a Jewish Romanian dramaturg, playwright, director, biographer, and memoirist, who served the State Jewish Theater of Romania between 1955 to 1982; he also wrote Yiddish-language poetry.

Eliakum Zunser (Eliakim Badchen) (1836 - 1913) was a Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish-language poet, songwriter, and "badchen" who lived out the last part of his life in U.S.. A 1905 article in the "New York Times" lauded him as "the father of Yiddish poetry". About a quarter of his roughly 600 songs survive. He influenced and was influenced by Brody singer Velvel Zbarzher, although it is not believed that they ever met.

Itzhak Katzenelson (also transcribed "Icchak-Lejb Kacenelson", "Jizchak Katzenelson"; "Yitzhok Katznelson") (1886–1944) was a Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist. He was born in 1886 in Karelits near Minsk, and was murdered May 1, 1944 in Auschwitz. Katzenelson lived as a teacher near Łódź, Poland. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he and his family fled to Warsaw, where they got trapped in the Ghetto.

Mordechai Gebirtig, born Mordekhai Bertig (b. 1877, Kraków - d. 1942, Kraków) was a Yiddish poet and songwriter, regarded as one of the most influential and popular writers of Yiddish songs and poems. Today, Gebirtig is perhaps best known internationally for his song, "S'brent" (It is burning), written in 1938 in response to the 1936 pogrom of Jews in the "shtetl" (small town) of Przytyk.

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 Lithuania.

Chava Rosenfarb, is a Holocaust survivor and Polish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War Two Yiddish Literature. Rosenfarb began writing poetry as young as eight. After surviving the Lodz ghetto, Rosenfarb spent time in Auschwitz, where her father died, and Bergen-Belsen, where she fell ill with nearly-fatal Typhus Fever in April of 1945.

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 scenes" "The Golem". He also wrote many highly political, realistic plays, including "Shop."

Beyle (or Bella) Schaechter-Gottesman (born August 7, 1920) is a Yiddish poet and songwriter.

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) of Kiev guberniya, Imperial Russia. He was a very prolific poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Yiddish, and his poems were widely translated into Russian and Ukrainian. He is considered one of the greatest Soviet poets in the Yiddish language and his poems were widely admired inside and outside Russia.

Anna Margolin is the pen name of Rosa Levensbaum a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet. Born in Brest, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, she was educated up to secondary school level, where she studied Hebrew. In she arrived in New York where most of her poetry was written. Margolin was associated with both the Di Yunge and ‘introspectivist’ groups in the Yiddish poetry scene at the time, …

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 Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He was one of the editors of Einigkeit (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine. He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets.

David Hofstein (1889 - August 12, 1952) was a Yiddish poet. He was born in Ukraine and received a traditional Jewish education; his application to the Kiev University was declined. Hofstein began to write in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, and Ukrainian. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, which he welcomed, Hofstein wrote only in Yiddish. He was coeditor of the Moscow Yiddish monthly "Shtrom", the last organ of free Jewish expression in the Soviet Union.

Srul Bronshtein was a Romanian and Soviet Yiddish-language poet.

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886, Zlotshev, Galicia-1932) was an American Yiddish poet. Having grown up with a traditional Jewish upbringing in eastern Europe, Halpern began writing modernist poetry in German while living in Vienna. Upon returning to his hometown, he switched to writing in Yiddish. In 1908, he emigrated to New York City in order to avoid the military draft. There he became associated with a group of Yiddish poets called "Di Yunge" (The Young Ones).

Celia Dropkin (December 5, 1887 [November 22 in the old Gregorian calendar] - Aug. 18, 1956) was a Yiddish poet. (In Yiddish her name was Tsipe, probably short for Zipporah, and later Tsilye Drapkin). She was born in Bobruysk, Belarus to an assimilated Russian-Jewish family. Her father, a forester, died of tuberculosis when Dropkin was young. Dropkin, with her mother and sister, were taken in by wealthy relatives.

Abraham Nahum Stencl (Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl was a Yiddish poet. He was born in Czeladź in south-western Poland. He left home in 1917 and travelled to Holland to join a Zionist community. He began travelling to Germany and emigrated to Berlin in 1921 where he met intellectuals and writers such as Franz Kafka and Kafka's lover Dora Diamant. Stencl began to write Yiddish poetry in a pioneer modernist and expressionist style, …