Gidone Busch

Gidone Busch

male
Gidone Busch was a 31-year old Hasidic Jew who was shot to death by officers of the NYPD on August 30, 1999 in Boro Park, Brooklyn. Busch, a...

Roberto de la Rocha

male
Roberto "Beto" de la Rocha was an American painter, graphic artist, and muralist. He was born in Wilmar, California to Mexican-American parents....
Solomon Stramer

Solomon Stramer

male
Solomon Stramer, was the leader of a Yiddish theater troupe founded in Vienna, Austria, but based in Cluj, Romania from 1919 at least until the...
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...

Velvel Zbarjer

male, deceased (1884)
Velvel Zbarjer (1824-1884), birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz (a.k.a. Velvl Zbarjer, Zbarjur, Zbarzher, etc.), a Galician Jew, was a Brody...
Julian Stryjkowski

Julian Stryjkowski

male, deceased (1996)
Julian Stryjkowski was a Polish journalist and writer, notable for his social prose of leftists character. He was born April 27, 1905 in Stryj...