modern yiddish
61MARGOLIN, ANNA — (pseudonym of Rosa Lebensboym; 1887–1952), Yiddish poet and journalist. Born into a maskilic family in Brest Litovsk, Belorussia, Margolin studied in the Odessa Jewish gymnasium. She came to the United States for the first time in 1906 and,… …
62Max Weinreich — (22 April 1894, Kuldīga, Russian Empire, now Latvia 29 January 1969, New York City, USA) was a linguist, specializing in the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish English English Yiddish… …
63Literatura en yidis — La literatura en yidis o literatura yídica es la escrita en yidis, la lengua de los judíos askenazíes, emparentada con el alemán medieval. Suele considerarse que la literatura en yidis ha tenido tres etapas: antigua literatura yídica (1300 1780); …
64ROSENFELD, MORRIS — (1862–1923), Yiddish poet. Born in Suvalk, Poland, Rosenfeld survived a cholera epidemic that claimed the lives of 12 of his siblings. He learned the tailor s trade from his father, which he practiced until he could earn his living by his pen.… …
65Ber Borochov — Dov Ber Borochov (July 4, 1881 – December 17, 1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement as well as a pioneer in the study of Yiddish as a language. He was born in the town of Zolotonosha, Russian Empire… …
66KULBAK, MOYSHE — (1896–1940), Yiddish poet, novelist, and dramatist. Kulbak was born in Smorgon near Vilna. He wrote first in Hebrew but soon changed to Yiddish and published his first book of poems Shirim ( Poems, 1920) while teaching in Vilna s Yiddish schools …
67Abraham Goldfaden — Infobox musical artist Name = Abraham Goldfaden Img capt = Abraham Goldfaden Img size = Landscape = Background = group or band Alias = Origin = Starokonstantinov, Russia Genre = Yiddish theatre, operetta Years active = 1876 ndash;1908 Label =… …
68Abraham Goldfaden — à Londres Abraham Goldfaden[1] (yiddish : אברהם גאָלדפֿאַדען Avrum Goldnfoden; roumain : Avram Goldfaden) est un poète et auteur dramatique juif russo roumain du …
69Asch, Sholem — born Nov. 1, 1880, Kutno, Pol., Russian Empire died July 10, 1957, London, Eng. Polish born U.S. novelist and playwright. Much of his writing concerns the experience of Jews in eastern European villages or as immigrants in the U.S. (to which he… …
70Chaim Zhitlowsky — Chaim Zhitlowsky. Chaim Zhitlowsky (Yiddish: חײם זשיטלאָװסקי; Russian: Хаим Осипович Житловский) (April 19, 1865 May 6, 1943) was a Jewish socialist, philosopher, social and political thinker, writer and literary critic born in the Russian Empire …
