Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

male, deceased (1991)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short st...
David Bergelson

David Bergelson

male, deceased (1952)
David (or Dovid) Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer. Ukrainian-born, he lived for a time in Berlin, Germany. He moved back to the Soviet Union...
Abraham Goldfaden

Abraham Goldfaden

male, deceased (1908)
Abraham Goldfaden (July 24, 1840 - January 9, 1908; ; born Avrum Goldnfoden; first name alternately Abram, Avram, Avrohom, Avrom, or Avrum, last...
Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch

male, deceased (1957)
Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Asch (1 January 1880, Kutno - 10 July 1957, London) was a Polish-born American novelist, dramatist, and essayist...
Sholom Aleichem

Sholom Aleichem

male, deceased (1916)
Sholom Aleichem (May 13, 1916) was a popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including...
H. Leivick

H. Leivick

male, deceased (1962)
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...
Mendele Mocher Sforim

Mendele Mocher Sforim

male, deceased (1917)
Mendele Mocher Sforim (December 21, 1835 (O.S.) = January 2, 1836 (N.S.) - November 25 (O.S.) = December 8 (N.S.), 1917), "Mendele the book...
Peretz Hirshbein

Peretz Hirshbein

male, deceased (1948)
Peretz Hirshbein (born 7 November 1880 in Melnik, Grodno - died 16 August 1948 in Los Angeles) was a Yiddish-language playwright, instrumental in...
David Edelstadt

David Edelstadt

male, deceased (1892)
David Edelstadt (May 9 1866, Kaluga, Russia - 17 October 1892, Denver, Colorado) was a Russian anarchist poet of Yiddish language.
Isaac Leib Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz

male, deceased (1915)
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...