Miriam Karpilove: One of the most published women writers of Yiddish prose
Miriam Karpilove was a popular Yiddish writer published regularly in the New York Yiddish press. Writing in the first half of the 20th...
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YIDDISH CULTURE
- Jun 27
- 6 min
Avrom Sutzkever. Resisting evil with poetry
by: Svetlana Pakhomova Avrom Sutzkever (1913 – 2010) was a modernist Yiddish poet from Vilna, who had a lot of suffering and no less...
- Sep 7, 2022
- 3 min
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's 90th Yortzeit
August 31, 2022, marks the 90th anniversary of the death of the eminent Jewish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. He passed away at the age of 46....
- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
Fania Brantsovskaja celebrates 100th birthday!
Fania for a long time has been a Vilnius legend. Her heroic life has inspired many young people to make films and write articles about...
- May 5, 2022
- 2 min
A tribute to mark the completion of Shloyshim of Lazar Lubarsky
Mordehay Yushkovsky April 24, 2022 was exactly one month (shloyshim) since the death of Lazar Lubarsky. Some have even called him...
- May 2, 2022
- 12 min
Marking the 100th anniversary of Yiddish professor Gershon Winer - "Mr. Yiddish"
Mordehay Yushkovsky The Yiddish poet Mendl Lifshitz wrote: And a multitude of papers soulfully The uncomplicated plot is kept inside: If...
- Apr 13, 2022
- 4 min
The 150th anniversary of David Pinsky
Mordehay Yushkovsky April 5, 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Jewish writer and playwright David Pinsky. Pinsky was...
- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
Elisheva Kantsedik (1922, Augustów, Poland - 2013, Israel)
Boris Sandler Journalist and prose writer E. Kantsedik was born in the town of Augustów, not far from the city of Bialystok, into the...
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
Leyzer Volf (12.01.1910, Vilna - ?.04.1943, near Samarkand, now Uzbekistan)
The real name of this poet, playwright and prose writer was Leyzer Mekler. He was born in Vilna into a house painter’s family. He began...
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
David Wolpe (1908, Keidan/Kėdainiai - 2006, Johannesburg)
The poet, essayist, prose writer and journalist David Wolpe could serve as a model for an almost extinct Jewish tribe, the so-called...
- Feb 14, 2022
- 6 min
Hirsh Osherovich (6.25.1908, Panevezys - 6.6.1994, Tel Aviv)
In Yiddish literary circles Hirsh Osherovich was nicknamed “iceberg”, because “only the tiny visible part is known about him." The poet...
- Jan 31, 2022
- 3 min
Meyer Yelin (12.?. 1910 - 1.3.2000, Israel)
The prose writer Meyer Yelin (in Lithuanian: Meiras Jelinas) was born into a teacher's family in the Lithuanian town of Srednik (in...
- Jan 27, 2022
- 5 min
Shmerke (Shmaryahu) Kacherginsky (10.28.1908, Vilna / Vilnius - 4.23.1953, Argentina)
For International Holocaust Remembrance Day Soon after the liberation of his hometown, the future poet, publicist, partisan and active...
- Jan 24, 2022
- 2 min
Ber Halpern (1902, Darsūniškis, Lithuania - 1984, Vilnius)
The prose writer Ber Halpern was born into a teacher's family and spent his childhood in a small shtetl Darsūniškis (in Yiddish named...
- Jan 17, 2022
- 3 min
Aaron Garon (1919, Vilna - 2009, Israel)
Journalist, essayist and translator Aaron Garon was born into a secular Jewish family in Vilna. His father, Avrom Itskhok Garon, was a...
- Jan 10, 2022
- 15 min
Avraham Karpinovich
(1913, Vilna / Vilnius - 2004, Tel Aviv) Avraham Karpinovich was born into the family of Moishe Karpinovich (1892-1941), a prominent...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 4 min
120th anniversary of the first collection of Jewish folk songs.
In 1901, the collection "Jewish Folk Songs in Russia" was published in St. Petersburg. This edition was a pioneering undertaking in many...
- Aug 9, 2021
- 2 min
Maurice Vinchevsky
This year marks 165 years since the birth of the Jewish poet, prose writer, playwright and journalist Maurice Vinchevsky, one of the...
- Jul 1, 2021
- 2 min
140 years to Ber Borokhov
July 3rd marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of Ber Borokhov, an outstanding political and public figure, founder and theoretician...
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
Shmuel Halkin (November 23 / December 5, 1897 – September 21, 1960)
Boris Sandler Poet, playwright and translator Shmuel Halkin was born in the town of Rogachev, Mogilev province (Belarus). His elder...
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