Sholom Aleichem

Sholom Aleichem

male, deceased (1916)
zionist Humorist yiddish writer Jewish American Tevye the Milkman … Yiddish literature
Sholom Aleichem (May 13, 1916) was a popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including... More
Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch

male, deceased (1957)
Polish-American Jewish person Jewish film and theatre yiddish hebrew writer … Yiddish literature
Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Asch (1 January 1880, Kutno - 10 July 1957, London) was a Polish-born American novelist, dramatist, and essayist... More
Aaron Lansky

Aaron Lansky

male, 53 years old (Springfield, Massachusetts, United States)
Hampshire College alumni Yiddish language MacArthur Fellow MacArthur Fellowship MacArthur Fellows Program National Yiddish Book Center … Yiddish literature
Aaron Lansky (b. 1955) is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language... More
David G. Roskies

David G. Roskies

male
Jewish judaism writer Yiddish literature From Quebec Jewish Theological Seminary Of America
David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and Professor of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological... More
Mendele Mocher Sforim

Mendele Mocher Sforim

male, deceased (1917)
Jewish hebrew yiddish Hebrew literature gregorian calendar book peddler … Yiddish literature
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... More
Isaac Leib Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz

male, deceased (1915)
writer Zhytomyr Hasidic Judaism hasidic jew Orthodox Judaism French … Yiddish literature
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... More
Chava Rosenfarb

Chava Rosenfarb

female, 88 years old
Les Belles Soeurs bergen-belsen yiddish writer tel aviv Holocaust … Yiddish literature
Chava Rosenfarb, is a Holocaust survivor and Polish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War Two Yiddish... More
Curt Leviant

Curt Leviant

male
Columbia University Brooklyn College Rutgers University Columbia Rutgers Yiddish literature
Curt Leviant (born ?) is a retired Jewish Studies Professor from Rutgers University, New Jersey. He received his BA from CUNY (Brooklyn), his MA... More

Joseph Leftwich

male, deceased (1984)
Jewish poet yiddish Biographer British whitechapel … Yiddish literature
Joseph Leftwich (1892 - 1984), born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a British-Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature. He is known... More

Glückel Of Hameln

female, deceased (1727)
Musar tracts Bavarian State Library Jewish Museum Berlin bratislava Musar tkhine … Yiddish literature
Glückel of Hameln. The manuscript was deposited in the Bavarian State Library in the second half of the nineteenth century. [Comments by David K... More