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11 hours ago
4 min

100th anniversary of Hirsch Glick

April 24, 2021 (date not exactly confirmed) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hirsch Glick. There are very few people who, with...

Apr 8
4 min

115 years anniversary of Shira Gorshman

April 10, 2021 marks the 115th anniversary of the Jewish writer Shire Gorshman. The dramas and fatal twists that filled this woman's life...

Apr 5
3 min

Hinde-Esther Kreitman - she would have turned 130.

March 31 marks the 130th anniversary of the Jewish writer and translator Hinde-Esther Kreitman - the older sister of the Nobel laureate...

Mar 31
2 min

Birthday of the Yiddish theater actress Ester-Rochl Kamiṅska

The prominent Yiddish theater actress and activist Ester-Rochl Kamiṅska (née Halperin) was born on March 10, 1868 in the shtetl of Porozovo,

Mar 31
2 min

Mordkhe Gebirtig (Mordechay Bertig)

Mordkhe Gebirtig (Mordechay Bertig), a Yiddish poet and songwriter, was born in Kraków on May 4, 1877.

Mar 31
2 min

Kadia Molodowsky - portraying women's voices in Yiddish literature

Kadia Molodowsky was a prolific and popular Yiddish poet, prose writer, editor, and teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew. Among other things, she w

Mar 31
2 min

Eliezer Steinbarg

Eliezer Steinbarg, the greatest ever Yiddish fabulist, a prominent pedagog and Jewish school education organizer in Bessarabia, Romania and

Mar 31
2 min

Chaim Grade

Chaim Grade was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the 20th century. He was born on April 4, 1910

Mar 31
2 min

Dora Teitelboim

A Yiddish poet Dora Teitelboim (Dore Taytlboym) was born on December 14, 1914 in Brisk (Brest Litowsk), now Brest, Belarus.

Mar 24
2 min

Marina (Masha) Gordon

The famous pop singer of Yiddish songs Marina (Masha) Gordon was born on December 11, 1917 in Minsk, Belarus. Marina possessed a...

Mar 23
5 min

Moishe Kulbak

March 20, 2021 marks the 125th anniversary of the Jewish poet, prose writer and playwriter Moishe Kulbak. He was called the prodigy of...

Mar 19
3 min

Sholem Aleichem

March 2nd marks the birthday of Sholem Aleichem. He is one of the three classics of Yiddish literature, alongside Mendele Moikher-Sforim...

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