Itche Goldberg

Itche Goldberg

male, deceased (2006)
polish, Centenarian, Yiddish-language writer, yiddish, writer, Jewish American
Itche Goldberg (March 22, 1904 - December 27, 2006) was a Yiddish writer of children's books, poet, librettist, educator, literary critic, camp...
Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin

male, 98 years old (Houston, Texas, United States)
Hollywood blacklist, the criterion collection, noir, House Un-American Activities Committee, Thieves' Highway, The Naked City…Yiddish Proletarian Theater, yiddish
Jules Dassin (born Julius Dassin on December 18, 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood...
Wolf Krakowski

Wolf Krakowski

male
Blues guitarist, Canadian, musician, Eskilstuna, street theatre, tsadik…yiddish
Wolf Krakowski, Yiddish-speaking song-writer, singer, and guitarist, born in 1947 at Saalfelden Farmach, an Austrian camp for displaced persons,...
Mordechai Gebirtig

Mordechai Gebirtig

male, deceased (1942)
shepherd's pipe, Holocaust victim, Yiddish literature, Jewish Labour Bund, Jewish Social-Democratic Party, World War I…Yiddish-language writer, yiddish, Yiddish-language poet
Mordechai Gebirtig, born Mordekhai Bertig (b. 1877, Kraków - d. 1942, Kraków) was a Yiddish poet and songwriter, regarded as one of the most in...
Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar G. Ulmer

male, deceased (1972)
Der Golem, Damaged Lives, buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Exploitation film, Max Reinhardt, The Golem How He Came Into the World…yiddish
Edgar G. Ulmer (September 17, 1904 - September 30, 1972) was an Austrian-American film director. He is best remembered for the movies "The Black...

Yechiel

male
hebrew, yiddish, Yiddish language, Jewish Peoples' Schools and Peretz Schools, United Talmud Torahs
Yechiel (Eli) Shainblum was a Montreal painter, sculptor and teacher. Though he was a respected and prolific artist who produced literally hundreds...

Lawrence Bush

male
Leo Rosten, Jewish Currents, Reconstructionism Today, Reconstructionist movement, Moment, The Joys of Yiddish…yiddish
Lawrence Bush is author of six books of Jewish fiction and non-fiction and most recently provided updating and commentary for the millennial...
Peretz Markish

Peretz Markish

male, deceased (1952)
Nkvd, Jewish, writer, World War I, Russian, soviet…yiddish, Yiddish-language writer
Peretz Markish (in Polonnoye, currently Ukraine - 12 August 1952 in Moscow) was a Jewish Soviet writer who wrote in Yiddish. His very distant...
Israel Joshua Singer

Israel Joshua Singer

male, deceased (1944)
yiddish, writer, Jewish American, Nobel Prize, polish, Jewish person…Yiddish-language writer, Yiddish language
Israel Joshua Singer was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisroel Yehoshua Zinger the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic...
Moshe Teitelbaum

Moshe Teitelbaum

male, deceased (1841)
Rebbes of Satmar, satmar, hebrew, yiddish, torah, polish
Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum (Hebrew: משה טייטלבוים) was the Rebbe of Ujhel in Hungary. According to Löw, he signed his name "Tamar", this being the equ...