3/12 | Yortsayt of Howard Fast
Today in Yiddishkayt…March 12 Yortsayt of Howard Fast, novelist Howard Fast, the prolific novelist, died on March 12, 2003. Fast was the author of almost 50 novels and was extremely popular for his...
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3/16 | Birthday of Reuben Brainin
Today in Yiddishkayt… March 16 Birthday of Reuben Brainin, Yiddish-Hebrew writer and publisher Reuben (or Ruven) Brainin was born on March 16, 1862 in Liady (today: Ляды, Belarus). Brainin left his...
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3/20 | Birthday of Moyshe Kulbak
Today in Yiddishkayt… March 20 Birthday of Moyshe Kulbak, Poet Moyshe Kulbak was born in Smorgon (today Смаргонь, Belarus), Vilna Province of the Russian Empire on March 20, 1896. The small town had a...
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3/23 | Birthday of Erich Fromm
Today in Yiddishkayt… March 23 Birthday of Erich Fromm, Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. He was the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents and began studying...
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3/10 | Birthday of Lamed Shapiro
Today in Yiddishkayt… March 10 Birthday of Lamed Shapiro, Yiddish writer Levi-Yehoyshue Shapiro, known by first initial as Lamed Shapiro, was born on March 10, 1878, in Rzhishchev, a shtetl on the...
View Article3/24 | Founding of YIVO
Today in Yiddishkayt… March 24 Founding of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research On March 24, 1925, the Yidisher Visnshaftlikher Institute (Yiddish Scientific Institute)— today known as the YIVO Institute...
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3/27 | Yortsayt of Adrienne Rich
Today in Yiddishkayt…March 27 Yortsayt of Adrienne Rich, poet Adrienne Rich, the prolific poet and essayist, died one year ago today, on March 27, 2012. Rich’s career as a poet and public intellectual...
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3/28 | Birthday of Maxim Gorky
Today in Yiddishkayt… March 28 Birthday of Maxim Gorky, Author and Political leader Alexander Peshkov (known as Maxim Gorky) was born in Nizhny Novgorod on March 28, 1868. Gorky became an orphan at the...
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Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club
Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club In 1926, the Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club was established to give a forum both for the writers who were flocking to the Pacific coast and their readers. In the...
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Yiddish once resounded on the streets of the City of Angels. Take a tour of some of the Yiddish landmarks of our city's past and present.
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3/31 | Honoring Lea Rudnicka
Today in Yiddishkayt… March 31 Honoring Lea Rudnicka, Poet and Partisan Lea Rudnicka (alternatively Rudnitzka or Rudnitzky) was born in 1916 in the city of Kalwarija in southwestern Lithuania....
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4/2 | Birthday of Serge Gainsbourg
Today in Yiddishkayt… April 2 Birthday of Serge Gainsbourg, French singer & songwriter Serge Gainsbourg was born Lucien Ginsburg on April 2, 1928 in Paris, France. He was the son of Russian Jewish...
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4/3 | Birthday of Eliezer Shteynbarg
Today in Yiddishkayt… April 3 Birthday of Eliezer Shteynbarg, Yiddish writer, fabulist, & educator Eliezer Shteynbarg was born on April 3, 1880 in Lipkon, Bessarabia (today: Lipcani, Moldova). He...
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4/4 | Birthday of H.D. Nomberg
Today in Yiddishkayt… April 4 Birthday of H.D. Nomberg, Yiddish writer Hersh Dovid Nomberg, the Yiddish and Hebrew writer and social activist was born on April 4, 1876. Nomberg was close friends with...
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4/6 | Birthday of Saul Ginsburg
Today in Yiddishkayt… April 6 Birthday of Saul Ginsburg, Journalist, Historian Shoyl Ginsburg (Saul Moiseevich Ginzburg) was born on April 6, 1866 to a wealthy merchant and industrialist family in...
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4/8 | Birthday of Avrom Reyzen
Today in Yiddishkayt… April 8 Birthday of Avrom Reyzen, Yiddish writer Avrom Reyzen (Abraham Reisen) was born on April 8, 1876 in Koidanov, eastern Belorussia (today Дзяржынск, Belarus). His father...
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4/9 | Honoring Leyzer Wolf
Today in Yiddishkayt… April 9 Honoring Leyzer Wolf, Yiddish poet Leyzer Wolf (Leyzer Mekler) was born in Shnipishok (today, Šnipiškis), a working-class suburb of Vilna. He attended secular Yiddish...
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Los Angeles Jewish People’s Fraternal Order
Los Angeles Jewish People’s Fraternal Order — International Workers’ Order, Jewish SectionThe International Workers’ Order came into being as the left wing faction of the Arbeter Ring|Workmen’s Circle...
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5/8 | Yortsayt of Berek Joselewicz
Today in Yiddishkayt… May 8Yortsayt of Berek Joselewicz, Jewish-Polish Military LeaderDov-Ber (Berek) Joselewicz was born on September 17, 1764 in Kretinga in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—a small...
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5/9 | Birthday of Dovid Edelstadt
Today in Yiddishkayt… May 9Birthday of Dovid Edelstadt, Anarchist & PoetDovid Edelstadt was born on May 9, 1866 in Kaluga (today: Калуга, Russia). He was educated in Russian language and...
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