List Of Yiddish-language Poets
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List Of Yiddish-language Poets
Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their poetry in the Yiddish language include: A * Moyshe Altman B * Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim * Rachel Boymvol * Olexander Beyderman * Israil Bercovici * Źmitrok Biadula * Hayim Nahman Bialik *Benjamin J. Bialostotzky * Moishe Broderzon * Srul Bronshtein D * Celia Dropkin E * David Edelstadt * Mendel Elefant * Israel Emiot''Britannica Book of the Year 1967'', 1967 (for events of 1966), "Literature" section, "Jewish" subsection, "Yiddish" sub-subsection, page 493 * Alter Esselin F * Itzik Fefer * Leon Feinberg * Mikhoel Felsenbaum * Chaim Leib Fox G * Mordechai Gebirtig * Aron Glantz-Leieles, alternative English spelling: Glanz-Leyeles (1899–1968), Polish native and Yiddish poet writing in the United StatesKravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972, Appendix B ("Other Hebrew Writers and Scholars"), pp 555-559 * Jacob Glatstein (alternative English spelling: Y ...
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Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ...
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Itzik Fefer
Itzik Feffer (10 September 1900 – 12 August 1952), also Fefer (Yiddish איציק פֿעפֿער, Russian Ицик Фефер, Исаàк Соломòнович Фèфер) was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets during Joseph Stalin's purges. Early life Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod '' uyezd'' (district) of Kiev Governorate, in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is now part of Ukraine. Career World War II During the Second World War, he was a military reporter with the rank of colonel and was vice chairman of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He and Solomon Mikhoels travelled to the United States in 1943 in a well-documented fund-raising trip. Arrest and death In 1948, after the assassination of the JAC Chairman Solomon Mikhoels, Feffer, along with other JAC members, was arrested and accused of treason. Feffer had been an informer for the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB) since 1943. Feffer rep ...
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Pincus Goodman
Pincus Goodman ( yi, פינחס גודמאן, 1881–1947), who published as P. Goodman (), was an American Yiddish-language poet active from the 1920s to the 1940s. Because he worked as a silk weaver his whole life, he was known as the "weaver poet." Biography Goodman was born in April 1881 in Łowicz, Poland. He had a traditional Jewish education and even considered studying to become a Rabbi before turning from religion to secular politics and becoming a freethinker. His parents both died in the 1881–1896 cholera pandemic when he was eight years old, leaving him an orphan. He became a weaver in Łódź, an important industrial centre in Poland which had a large Jewish silk-weaving industry. He emigrated to the United States in 1902 or possibly 1904, settling in Paterson, New Jersey and continuing to work as a silk weaver for the rest of his life. Paterson was an important centre of Jewish weavers from Lodz and Bialystok who were known for their left-wing politics. He and ...
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Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדען; born Avrum Goldnfoden; 24 July 1840 – 9 January 1908), also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of modern Jewish theatre. In 1876 he founded in Romania what is generally credited as the world's first professional Yiddish-language theater troupe. He was also responsible for the first Hebrew-language play performed in the United States. The Avram Goldfaden Festival of Iaşi, Romania, is named and held in his honour. Jacob Sternberg called him "the Prince Charming who woke up the lethargic Romanian Jewish culture." Israil Bercovici wrote of his works: "we find points in common with what we now call 'total theater'. In many of his plays he alternates prose and verse, pantomime and dance, moments of acrobatics and some of ''jonglerie'', and even of spirituali ...
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Hirsh Glick
Hirsch Glick (1922 in Wilno, Poland – 1944 in Estonia) was a Jewish poet and partisan. Glick was born in Wilno in 1922 (at the time a part of inter-war Poland). He began to write Yiddish poetry in his teens and became co-founder of '' Yungvald'' (Young Forest), a group of young Jewish poets. After the German assault on the Soviet Union in 1941, Hirsh Glick was imprisoned in the Weiße Wache concentration camp and later transferred to the Vilna Ghetto. Glick involved himself in the ghetto's artistic community while simultaneously participating in the underground and took part in the 1942 ghetto uprising. In 1943 he wrote his most famous work, the song '' Zog nit keynmol, az du geyst dem letstn veg'' (זאג ניט קיינמאל, אז דו גייסט דעם לעצטן וועג) to the music of Dmitry Pokrass (1899-1978), which became the anthem of the Jewish partisan movement, and '' Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt''. He was inspired to write this work by news that arrived of ...
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Yankev Glatshteyn
Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) yiddish יעקב גלאטשטיין was a Polish-born American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language. His name is also spelled Yankev Glatshteyn or Jacob Glatshteyn. Early life Glatstein was born August 20, 1896, in Lublin, Poland. Although his family identified with the Jewish Enlightenment movement, he received a traditional education until the age of 16 and an introduction to modern Yiddish literature. In 1914, due to increasing anti-semitism in Lublin, he immigrated to New York City, where his uncle lived. He worked in sweatshops while studying English. He started to study law at New York University in 1918. He worked briefly at teaching before switching to journalism. He married in 1919. Career In 1920, together with Aaron Glanz-Leyles (1889–1966) and N. B. Minkoff (1898–1958), Glatstein established the ''Inzikhist'' (Introspectivist) literary movement and founded the literary organ ''In Sich''. The ''Inzikhist'' credo ...
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Jacob Glatstein
Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) yiddish יעקב גלאטשטיין was a Poland, Polish-born United States, American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language. His name is also spelled Yankev Glatshteyn or Jacob Glatshteyn. Early life Glatstein was born August 20, 1896, in Lublin, Poland. Although his family identified with the Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment movement, he received a traditional education until the age of 16 and an introduction to Yiddish literature#Modern Yiddish literature, modern Yiddish literature. In 1914, due to increasing anti-semitism in Lublin, he immigrated to New York City, where his uncle lived. He worked in sweatshops while studying English. He started to study law at New York University in 1918. He worked briefly at teaching before switching to journalism. He married in 1919. Career In 1920, together with Aaron Glanz-Leyles (1889–1966) and N. B. Minkoff (1898–1958), Glatstein established the ''Inzikhist'' (Introspectivist) literary ...
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1968 In Poetry
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. ** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * ...
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1899 In Poetry
— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's '' White Man's Burden'', first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 20 – Welsh "tramp-poet" W. H. Davies loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario. * William Hughes Mearns writes "Antigonish" this year; it won't be published until 1922. * Romesh Chunder Dutt's translation of the ''Ramayana'' into English verse is first published, in London. * ''Shinshisha'' ("New Poetry Society") founded by Yosano Tekkan in Japan. Works published Australia * W. T. Goodge, ''Hits! Skits! and Jingles!'' Canada * Frances Jones Bannerman, ''Milestones.'' London.Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. ''Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War.'' Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994. * William Wilfred Campbell, ''Beyond the Hills of Dream''. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin.
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Aron Glantz-Leieles
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Mordechai Gebirtig
Mordechai Gebirtig ( yi, מרדכי געבירטיג), born Mordecai Bertig (4 May 1877 – 4 June 1942), was an influential Polish poet and songwriter of the interwar period. He was shot by Germans in the Kraków Ghetto, occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. A number of his Yiddish songs are sung to this day, including Es brent, ''Reyzele'', ''Moyshele Mayn Fraynd'', and ''Kinder Yorn''. Life Mordechai Gebirtig was born in Kraków under the Austrian Partition, and lived in its Jewish working-class quarter all his life. He served for five years in the Austro-Hungarian army. Gebirtig became a renowned folk artist in Yiddish literature and song while in Kraków. He was self-taught in music, played the shepherd's pipe, and tapped out tunes on the piano with one finger. He earned his livelihood as a furniture worker; while music and theatre were his avocations. His life ended in the Nazi shooting action carried out in the Kraków Ghetto on the infamous "Bloody Thursday" of June ...
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