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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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