Nathan Alterman

Nathan Alterman

male, deceased (1970)
racine, Modern Hebrew writer, yiddish, shakespeare, Jewish person, polish
Natan Alterman (born 1910, Warsaw - died 1970, in Israel) was an Israeli poet, journalist, and translator. He was born in Warsaw, and moved to Tel...
Itzik Feffer

Itzik Feffer

male, deceased (1952)
Jewish, poet, World War II, yiddish, writer, Soviet poet…Yiddish-language poet, Yiddish-language writer
Itzik Feffer was a Soviet Yiddish poet who fell victim to Stalin's purges. Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod "uyezd" (district)...
Isaac Goldberg

Isaac Goldberg

male
Harvard University, ma degree, panorama, Master's Degree, English, doctorate…Yiddish language, yiddish
Isaac Goldberg (1887-July 14, 1938) was an American journalist, author, critic, translator, editor, publisher, and lecturer. Born in Boston he...
Morris Halle

Morris Halle

male, 86 years old
Jewish person, linguistics, The Sound Pattern of English, American, riga, Phonologist…yiddish
Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz, is an American linguist. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They a...

Esther Kreitman

female, deceased (1954)
yiddish, World War I, Yiddish literature, Yiddish-language writer, Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman, Morris Kreitman
Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman, known in English as Esther Kreitman, was a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer. She was born in Bilgoraj,...
Lucjan Dobroszycki

Lucjan Dobroszycki

male, deceased (1995)
Jewish, Polish-Jewish history, Łódź Ghetto, Łódź, Nazi concentration camps, the war…yiddish
Lucjan Dobroszycki was a Jewish-Polish scientist and historian specializing in modern Polish and Polish-Jewish history. A survivor of the Łódź Ghe...
Jack Yellen

Jack Yellen

male, deceased (1991)
yiddish, English, vaudeville, emigration, Lyricist, Jewish
Jack Selig Yellen ]] (July 6, 1892 - April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist. Yellen's family emigrated to the United States when he was five. He...
Bel Kaufman

Bel Kaufman

female, 98 years old
Russian-American Jew, Columbia University faculty, Columbia University, Russian-American, chaucer, American…yiddish
Bel Kaufman (born May 10, 1911, in Berlin, Germany) is a Russian-American professor and author. She is best known for her 1965 best-seller, "Up the...
Sam Jaffe

Sam Jaffe

male, deceased (1984)
lost horizon, cancer death, gunga din, the day the earth stood still, Columbia University, cancer…yiddish
Sam Jaffe (March 8, 1891 - March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best...
Morris Hillquit

Morris Hillquit

male, deceased (1933)
World War I, New York University, lower east side, riga, New York lawyer, Socialist Party of America…yiddish
Morris Hillquit (1869-1933) was a prominent Socialist and labor lawyer in New York City's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century. Born...