Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson

male, deceased (1973)
last name, sound film, family name, Academy Honorary Award recipient, Hollywood Walk of Fame, yiddish…Yiddish language
Edward Goldenberg Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg, Yiddish: עמנואל גאלדנבערג; December 12, 1893 - January 26, 1973) was an American stage...
Ida Kaminska

Ida Kaminska

female, deceased (1980)
death from cardiovascular disease, yiddish, polish, actor, Jewish person, Kamińska
Ida Kaminska, in Poland Kamińska "nee" Halpern, (September 18, 1899 – May 21, 1980) was an Oscar-nominated Jewish Polish actress. Born in Ode...
Mike Burstyn

Mike Burstyn

male, 64 years old
Israeli-American, from New York City, Broadway theatre, Michael Burstein, A Khasene in Shtetl, The Flying Matchmaker…yiddish, Yiddish theater, Yiddish theatre performer, Yiddish singer
Michael Burstein (b. July 1 1945, New York City, USA) is an actor known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He is the son of the late Yiddish-language actors,...
Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels

male, deceased (1948)
Jewish, Russian road accident victim, Russian, actor, Soviet state, Road accident victim…yiddish, Yiddish theater, Yiddish language
Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (real surname - Vovsi), ; (January 12/13, 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and director in Yiddish theater and the...
Der Nister

Der Nister

male, deceased (1950)
Leonard Wolf, Di Mishpokhe Mashber, enlightenment, secular, October Revolution, Zhitomir…Yiddish-language writer, Yiddish language, yiddish
Der Nister was the penname of Pinchus Kahanovich (פנחס כהנאָוויטש), a Yiddish author, philosopher, translator, and critic. Der Nister was born in Be...
Morris Rosenfeld

Morris Rosenfeld

male, deceased (1923)
Jewish, American, Jewish person, poet, polish, Polish-American…yiddish, Yiddish-language writer
Morris Rosenfeld (born December 28 1862 in Bokscha in Russian Poland, government of Suwałki; died June 22 1923 in New York) was a Yiddish poet. H...
Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever

male, 96 years old
Jewish person, polish, bee, Gymnasium, First World War, Łódź…Yiddish-language poet, yiddish
Abraham Sutzkever (July 15, 1913 -) is a Yiddish poet and Holocaust-era partisan. (Alternate English spellings: Avrom Sutzkever, Avrohom...
Mordkhe Schaechter

Mordkhe Schaechter

male, deceased (2007)
hebrew, Ashkenazic, jewish history, germanic, aramaic, Hebrew alphabet…Linguist of Yiddish, yiddish
Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter was a leading Yiddish linguist, as well as a writer and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching...
Chaim Grade

Chaim Grade

male, deceased (1982)
Russian Empire, maskil, prose, yiddish, Holocaust, twentieth century…Yiddish-language poet, Yiddish-language writer
Chaim Grade (b. April 4 1910, in Vilna, Russian Empire now Vilnius, Lithuania); d. April 26 1982, Los Angeles, California) was one of the leading...
Abraham Ellstein

Abraham Ellstein

male
Alexander Olshanetsky, Eastern Europe, Yidl mitn fidl, Second Avenue, Abraham "Abe" Ellstein, Alexander Olshnetsky…Yiddish theatre, yiddish
Abraham "Abe" Ellstein ("Avrom Ellstein", July 7, 1907, New York - 1963) was American composer for Yiddish entertainments. Along with Shalom...