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...rnship-faculty.html |date=2007-11-09 }}</ref> His specialty is [[Yiddish]] and his book ''[[Born to Kvetch]]'' was a surprise bestseller in 2005.<ref name ...iechanów]] and [[Stryków]]. He has taught at the [[University of Toronto]] and the [[University of Michigan]].<ref name=wordsmith>[http://wordsmith.org/ch ...

...al name: Yisrael-Zalman Hurvits or Gurvitz), was a writer of short stories and a playwright in [[Yiddish theater]], active around 1900. ...of the East Side" [Goldberg, 1918, 688] was born in the [[Russian Empire]] and emigrated to the [[United States]] in 1892. ...

...ytomirski''' (1911–1975) was a prominent Polish poet, playwright, novelist and essayist.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Leksykon polskich pisarzy współczesnych: N Żytomirski was a grandson of the Jewish pedagogue and Yiddish scholar [[Konstantin Zhitomirsky]]. ...

...ks Rodkinson)<ref name="Rodkinson"/> was a [[playwright]], [[songwriter]], and [[comedian]]. He rivaled [[Sigmund Mogulesko]] in [[Yiddish Theater]] in [[ ...he appeared in described him as "better known as a writer of Yiddish plays and as an actor of Shakepearean parts in the Bowery theaters than as a lawyer". ...

...he early years of [[Yiddish theater]], first in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]] and later in [[New York City]], where he was a co-founder in 1903 with [[Sophia ...ropeans in America (or The Greenhorns), "[[Satan in the Garden of Eden]]", and "[[The Jewish Heart]]"''.<ref>Nahma Sandrow, ''Vagabond Stars, a world hist ...

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|2|10|1893|11|30|mf=y}} ...ree daughters followed in the family business and are also published poets and novelists. ...

{{Short description|Yiddish-language writer (1880–1948)}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|8|16|1880|11|7}} ...

...them. Although often objected to by [[rabbi]]s, these plays were popular, and were performed not only on Purim but for as much as a week afterwards in va ...Jewish People's Paper in Yiddish, from 1902 to 1914 his weeklies, ''Zion'' and ''Love of Zion'' (Ahavat Tzion אהבת ציון, together with Elijahu Blank) a bi ...

...rational issues between [[Jew]]ish immigrants to [[United States|America]] and the first generation of American-born Jews. ==Life and works== ...

{{Short description|American writer and Yiddish poet (1888–1962)}} ...e page also contains a poem by Leivick (ייִדישע פּאָעטן ["Yiddish Poets"]) and links to a recording of Leivick reading the poem.</ref> December 25, 1888 & ...

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|10|29|1896|03|20}} ...919, after the Soviet Revolution, to Vilna (today [[Vilnius]], Lithuania); and in 1920 to [[Berlin]]. ...

...|דער פֿרײַנד}}).{{sfn|Elhanan|2014|p=2}} While still in Europe, he married and divorced a dentist with whom he had one son.{{sfn|Elhanan|2014|p=4}} ...he married Liza Arlosoroff, a musician, and sister of [[Haim Arlosoroff]], and later edited Haim Arlosoroff's writings.{{cn|date=January 2021}} ...

{{short description|Russian Jewish writer, journalist, and educator}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1899|04|12|1811|01|14|df=yes}} ...

|death_date = {{death date and age|1909|06|11|1853|05|01|df=y}} ...ddish theater]]. He is known for introducing [[Realism (theatre)|realism]] and [[Naturalism (theatre)|naturalism]] into Yiddish theater. ...

| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|8|11|1872|4|5}} ...unknown to [[Yiddish literature]]. He was also notable among early Yiddish playwrights in having stronger connections to [[German language]] literary traditions t ...

{{Short description|American playwright and actor (1844–1910)}} ...ad "wandered in different lands, involved himself in various undertakings, and then moved on often leaving, it is said not altogether pleasant memories be ...

...eater]] of Romania between 1955 and 1982; he also wrote [[Yiddish language|Yiddish-language]] poetry. Bercovici was born into a poor working-class family in [[Botoşani]], Romania, and received a traditional Jewish education. During [[World War II]] he served ...

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|07|07|1885|05|31|df=y}} ...a photographer whose work immortalised Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. ...

{{Short description|Ukrainian Jewish poet and playwright writing mainly in Yiddish}} ...]] 25 November] 1895 &ndash; 12 August 1952) was a [[Russian Jewish]] poet and playwright who wrote predominantly in [[Yiddish]].<ref>{{Britannica|365786} ...

...st his will and wrestling with his particular form of the human condition, and, secondarily, of the rabbi, a "creator whose creation does not respond in a ...e=":0">{{Cite book |title=The Golem: a new translation of the classic play and selected short stories |date=2006 |publisher=Norton |isbn=978-0-393-05088-2 ...