Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their poetry in the Yiddish language include: Moyshe Altman Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim Israil Bercovici Olexander...
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comparison. List of Yiddish-language poets List of Yiddish newspapers and periodicals The Yiddish King Lear – 1892 play Yinglish – Words from the Yiddish Language...
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Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...
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Israil Bercovici (category Yiddish-language poets)
memoirist, who served the State Jewish Theater of Romania between 1955 and 1982; he also wrote Yiddish-language poetry. Bercovici was born into a poor working-class...
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This is a list of Hebrew-language poets (year links are to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article): Moses King David King Solomon Jeremiah Eleazar ha-Kalir...
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Moyshe Nadir (category Yiddish-language satirists)
org/details/InTheOtherWorld Yiddish literature Yiddish language Yiddish Renaissance List of Yiddish language poets Yiddish theatre Cohen, Joshua (June...
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Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish...
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anthologist Yehoash, poet Louis Zukofsky, poet Poetry portal Literature portal Jewish American literature List of Yiddish language poets List of Jewish American...
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earliest speakers of Modern Hebrew had Yiddish as their native language and often introduced calques from Yiddish and phono-semantic matchings of international...
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poets not listed here. Three 19th century poets have historically been recognized as the national poets of Polish Romantic literature, dubbed the Three...
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Chaim Grade (category American poets in Yiddish)
to fiction, writing in Yiddish. Chaim Grade was born in 1910, the son of Shloyme-Mordkhe Grade, a teacher of Hebrew language, and his second wife, a...
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Rajzel Żychlińsky (category Yiddish-language poets)
Tippelskirch's 1997 doctoral dissertation. Poetry portal Yiddish literature List of Yiddish language poets von Tippelskirch, Karina (March 1, 2009). "Rajzel...
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antithesis of Yiddish. Against the exilic Yiddish language stood revived Hebrew, the language of Zionism, of grassroots pioneers, and above all, of the transformation...
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American-born Jews unable to read the language of their Yiddish-speaking parents and grandparents. He organized a nationwide network of zamlers (volunteer book collectors)...
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alphabetical list of internationally notable poets. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), US poet Aarudhra...
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David Bergelson (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
(or Dovid) Bergelson (Yiddish: דוד בערגעלסאָן, Russian: Давид Бергельсон, 12 August 1884 – 12 August 1952) was a Yiddish language writer born in the Russian...
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Abraham Sutzkever (category Yiddish-language poets)
Sutzkever (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער, romanized: Avrom Sutskever; Hebrew: אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The...
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Itzhak Katzenelson (category Yiddish-language poets)
Itzhak Katzenelson (Yiddish: (יצחק קאַצ(ע)נעלסאָן(זון; also transcribed as Icchak-Lejb Kacenelson, Jizchak Katzenelson; Yitzhok Katznelson) (1 July 1886...
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1700–1900) Sadhu Bhasha (the modern language Bengali from 1820s to 1940s) Classical Yiddish (language of the Yiddish Renaissance, 19th–20th centuries) Classical...
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Sholem Schwarzbard (category Yiddish-language poets)
Shvartsburd; Yiddish: שלום שװאַרצבאָרד; French: Samuel 'Sholem' Schwarzbard; 18 August 1886 – 3 March 1938) was a Russian-French Yiddish poet. He served...
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Mark Warshawsky (category Yiddish-language singers of Russia)
(Russian: Марк Маркович Варшавский, Yiddish: מאַרק וואַרשאַווסקי; 26 November 1848 – 1907) was a Yiddish-language folk poet and composer. Mark Warshawsky was...
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Zalman Shneour (category Yiddish-language poets)
Zalman Shneour (Yiddish: זלמן שניאור; born Shneur Zalkind; 1887 – 20 February 1959) was a prolific Yiddish and Hebrew poet and writer. In 1955, he was...
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Celia Dropkin (category American poets in Yiddish)
Celia Dropkin (Yiddish: ציליע דראַפּקין, December 5 [O.S. November 23] 1887 – August 18, 1956) was a Russian-born American Yiddish poet, writer, and artist...
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This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, listed by the period in which they were born. In chronological order: Enheduanna (c. 23th century...
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Moishe (category Yiddish masculine given names)
is a masculine given name, the Yiddish version of Moses. It may refer to: Moishe Broderzon (1890–1956), Yiddish poet and theater director Moishe Finkel...
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writer Sholem Aleichem, native of the Russian Empire who later emigrated to Switzerland. His native language was Yiddish, but he also wrote in Hebrew and...
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Nechama Lifshitz (category Yiddish-language singers of Lithuania)
Aviv, Israel) was a Yiddish language and later Hebrew language soprano and art song performer who came to be a key representative of Soviet Jewish culture...
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Sholem Asch (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. Asch was born Szalom Asz in Kutno...
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Zapruder (category Yiddish-language surnames)
Zapruder is a Yiddish language surname derived from the East Slavic "запруда", referring to a weir or a dammed pond. Notable people with the name include:...
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