Uriel Weinreich

Uriel Weinreich

male, deceased (1967)
Languages in Contact, linguistics, linguist, LCAAJ, Yiddish dialects, dialectology…Linguist of Yiddish, yiddish
Uriel Weinreich (1926 - 1967) was a world famous linguist at Columbia University. Born in Vilnius (then part of Poland and now capital of...
Aaron Lansky

Aaron Lansky

male, 54 years old (Springfield, Massachusetts, United States)
Hampshire College alumni, Yiddish language, MacArthur Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, National Yiddish Book Center, MacArthur Fellow…yiddish, Yiddish literature, Yiddish Book Center, President at National Yiddish Book Center
Aaron Lansky (b. 1955) is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language...
Abraham Cahan

Abraham Cahan

male, deceased (1951)
labor organizations, rabbi, American newspaper founder, Vitebsk, Wilna, Podberezhye…yiddish
Abraham Cahan (July 7, 1860 - August 31 1951) was an Russian-American novelist and labor leader. He was born in Podberezhye, Lithuania, into a...
Mickey Katz

Mickey Katz

male, deceased (1985)
Cocktails for Two, Yiddish language, yiddish, Wondrous Oblivion, the barber of seville, Parody
Mickey Katz (June 15, 1909 - April 30, 1985) was a U.S. Jewish comedian who received his first moments as fame in the 1940s as a member of Spike...
Henry Sapoznik

Henry Sapoznik

male, 56 years old
musician, From Brooklyn, score, Klezmer musician, Documentary film, ASCAP…yiddish
Henry Sapoznik is also a record producer, composer, author and performer of traditional Yiddish and American music. A pioneering scholar and...
S. Ansky

S. Ansky

male, deceased (1920)
An-ski, General Jewish Labour Union, Podolia, The Dybbuk, Narodnik, Vitebsk…Yiddish language, Yiddish theatre, Yiddish-language writer, yiddish
Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863, Vitebsk -1920, Otwock), better known by the pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-ski), was a scholar who documented Jewish...
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

female, 89 years old
yiddish, National Heritage Fellowship winner, Yiddish-language poet, the bronx, chernivtsi, bella
Beyle (or Bella) Schaechter-Gottesman (born August 7, 1920) is a Yiddish poet and songwriter.
Moishe Oysher

Moishe Oysher

male, deceased (1958)
Jewish film and theatre, yiddish, romanian, jazz, synagogue, Hazzans
Moishe Oysher. He is considered one of the most entertaining chazanim (cantors) ever recorded. It is said that there were chazanim in his family...
Hillel Halkin

Hillel Halkin

male
writer, Jewish American, yiddish, columnist, fiddler on the roof, Jewish person
Hillel Halkin is author of several books, and a prominent translator of Jewish literature. In 1987 he produced what has come to be the definitive...
Leo Fuld

Leo Fuld

male
Jewish, schlager, From Rotterdam, Hazzan, Rotterdam Blitz, Hazzans…Yiddish singer, yiddish
Lazarus 'Leo' Fuld was a Dutch singer who specialised in Yiddish songs. Leo Fuld was born as the third of ten children and grew up in a poor Jewish...