Uri Zvi Greenberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg

male, deceased (1981)
buried at the Mount of Olives, Former Member of the Knesset, pogrom, World War II, yiddish, British
Uri Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981), the son of a distinguished Hasidic family was raised in Lvov (now in Ukraine) and received a traditional religious...
Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector

female, deceased (1977)
ukrainian, yiddish, Perto do Coração Selvagem, Recife, Maceió, writer…Yiddish language
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels, she was also an accomplished writer of short stories...
Yehudi Wyner

Yehudi Wyner

male, 80 years old
Yale University alumni, immigrant to the United States, from New York City, Canadian, Hazzan, State University of New York at Purchase…Yiddish language, yiddish
Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. Although Wyner was born in Calgary in 1929, he was raised in New York...

Glückel Of Hameln

female, deceased (1727)
Musar tracts, Bavarian State Library, Jewish Museum Berlin, bratislava, Musar, tkhine…Yiddish literature, Yiddish-language writer, Yiddish language, yiddish
Glückel of Hameln. The manuscript was deposited in the Bavarian State Library in the second half of the nineteenth century. [Comments by David K...
Joseph Schmidt

Joseph Schmidt

male, deceased (1942)
Parlophone, Meyerbeer, rossini, German, romanian, French…yiddish, Yiddish language
Joseph Schmidt was a tenor and actor. He was born in Davidende (Ukrainian: Davideny), a small town in the Bukovina province of Austria-Hungary,...

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern

male
poet, yiddish, German, galicia, Yiddish-language poet, modernist poetry
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886, Zlotshev, Galicia-1932) was an American Yiddish poet. Having grown up with a traditional Jewish upbringing in eastern...
Milt Gross

Milt Gross

male, deceased (1953)
American comic strip cartoonist, cartoonist, Jewish American, Comics artist, comics writer, illustrator…yiddish
Milt Gross (March 4, 1895 - November 29, 1953), was an American comic book writer, illustrator, and animator. He wrote his comics in a...
Ross Martin

Ross Martin

male, deceased (1981)
Olavee Grindrod, The Return of Charlie Chan, Charlie's Angels, death by myocardial infarction, Night Gallery, Charlie Chan…yiddish
Ross Martin, culminating with a role in "The Great Race," as the smoothly villainous Baron Rolfe Von Stuppe. After his performance in "The Great...
Habima Theatre

Habima Theatre

male
Habima National Theatre, Theatres and concert halls in Israel, yiddish, National Theatre, The Stage, Cluj…Yiddish theater
Habima National Theatre (lit. "the stage"), located in Tel Aviv, is Israel's national theatre and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. The...
Zvee Scooler

Zvee Scooler

male, deceased (1985)
film actor, yiddish, stage actor, Radio personality, Jewish American, fiddler on the roof…Yiddish language
Zvee Scooler was an actor and radio commentator who was born in the town of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine on December 1 1899. He died in New York...