Personalities

Chersonskij Emil (Milan) 1937-2021

A Mensch has passed away, whose merits for the Lithuanian Yiddish culture can hardly be overestimated. Chersonskij was born on 2/9/1937...

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...

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...

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,

Mordkhe Gebirtig (Mordechay Bertig)

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

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

Eliezer Steinbarg

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

Chaim Grade

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

Dora Teitelboim

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

Sholem Aleichem

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

Cantor Abraham Brun - Songs of the Ghetto

Music plays an important part in Holocaust memory and commemoration. The album, featuring Cantor Abraham Brun, was released in 1965 by...