- male, deceased (1927)
- Yehoash was the pen name for Solomon Blumgarten, a Yiddish-language poet. He was responsible for translating many works of world literature into...
- male, deceased (1917)
- Mendele Mocher Sforim (December 21, 1835 (O.S.) = January 2, 1836 (N.S.) - November 25 (O.S.) = December 8 (N.S.), 1917), "Mendele the book...
- male, deceased (1994)
- Leo Fuchs (May 15, 1911-December 31, 1994) was a Polish actor. He was known as "The Yiddish Fred Astaire." He was a Broadway and film star. He was...
- female, 51 years old
- Yiddish-language poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath was born in the The Bronx, New York, in 1958. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended...
- male, deceased (1963)
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ((November 24, 1884 - April 23, 1963) was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, and the second and longest serving President of...
- female, deceased (2005)
- Lillian Lux (1918 - 2005) was an Israeli-American singer, author, songwriter and actor in Yiddish theater and Yiddish vaudeville in the United...
- male, deceased (1984)
- Joseph Leftwich (1892 - 1984), born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a British-Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature. He is known...
- 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...
- male, deceased (1917)
- Ludvic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and s...
- male, 46 years old
- Binyumen (Ben) Schaechter (1963-) is a Yiddish composer and performer, as well as conductor of the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus (JPPC) and...
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