Feb 28, 20222 minLeyzer 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, 20223 minDavid 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, 20226 minHirsh 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, 20223 minMeyer 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...