Eva Hoffman

female
Eva Wydra Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born as Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Kraków, Poland after her Jewish parents survived the H...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

male, deceased (1970)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon. One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Ottoman...
German Goldenshteyn

German Goldenshteyn

male, deceased (2006)
German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn (2 September 1934 – June 10 2006) was born in the Bessarabian shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Mo...
Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac

male, deceased (1990)
Roman Vishniac was a renowned Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe...
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

male, deceased (1922)
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was principally responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language from its previous state as a liturgical language. Bo...
Mordechai Gebirtig

Mordechai Gebirtig

male, deceased (1942)
Mordechai Gebirtig, born Mordekhai Bertig (b. 1877, Kraków - d. 1942, Kraków) was a Yiddish poet and songwriter, regarded as one of the most in...
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...
Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector

female, deceased (1977)
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels, she was also an accomplished writer of short stories...
Boris Thomashefsky

Boris Thomashefsky

male, deceased (1939)
Boris Thomashefsky was a Ukrainian-born (later American) Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre; born in...
Chaim Goldberg

Chaim Goldberg

male, deceased (2004)
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