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...
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...
Aaron Lansky

Aaron Lansky

male, 54 years old (Springfield, Massachusetts, United States)
Aaron Lansky (b. 1955) is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language...
David G. Roskies

David G. Roskies

male
David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and Professor of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological...
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...
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...
Chava Rosenfarb

Chava Rosenfarb

female, 89 years old
Chava Rosenfarb, is a Holocaust survivor and Polish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War Two Yiddish...
Curt Leviant

Curt Leviant

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

Joseph Leftwich

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

Glückel Of Hameln

female, deceased (1727)
Glückel of Hameln. The manuscript was deposited in the Bavarian State Library in the second half of the nineteenth century. [Comments by David K...