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Mordkhe
Motke, Mordkhe, or Mordka are Jewish given names, diminutives of Mordechai. Notable people referred to as Motke include: * Motke Rosenthal, or Márk Rózsavölgyi (1787-1848), Jewish Hungarian composer and violinist *Mordechai Maklef, Mordechai (Motke) Maklef (1920–1978), Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces *Motke Chabad (19th century), Jewish Lithuanian jester from Vilnius *Mordka Mendel Grossman (1913-1945), photographer and worker in the Statistical Department of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto *Mordka was the birth given name of Mark Zamenhof (1837-1907) *Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007), Yiddish linguist *Mordkhe Veynger (1890–1929), Soviet-Jewish linguist Fictional characters *''Motke the Thief'', a 1913 novel by Sholem Ash * ''Motke the Angel of Death'', a 1926 novel by Ilya Selvinsky See also * {{given name Jewish given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordkhe Schaechter
Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter ( yi, איציע מרדכי שעכטער; December 1, 1927 – February 15, 2007) was a leading Yiddish linguist, writer, and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language.Saxon, Wolfgang (February 16, 2007).Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, Leading Yiddish Linguist. ''The New York Times''. p. A21. Schaechter, whose passion for Yiddish dated to his boyhood in Romania, dedicated his life to reclaiming Yiddish as a living language for the descendants of its first speakers, the Ashkenazic Jewry of central and eastern Europe. He was also the third editor of ''Afn Shvel'' (1957–2004), a Yiddish magazine. In Europe He was born Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter in the then-Romanian town of Czernowitz (in German and Yiddish; known in Romanian as Cernăuţi, and in Ukrainian as Chernivtsi). His father was a businessman. Schaechter became fascinated with Yiddish as a student, and he decided to study linguistics at the University of Bucharest. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motke Rosenthal
Motke, Mordkhe, or Mordka are Jewish given names, diminutives of Mordechai. Notable people referred to as Motke include: * Motke Rosenthal, or Márk Rózsavölgyi (1787-1848), Jewish Hungarian composer and violinist * Mordechai (Motke) Maklef (1920–1978), Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces *Motke Chabad (19th century), Jewish Lithuanian jester from Vilnius *Mordka Mendel Grossman (1913-1945), photographer and worker in the Statistical Department of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto *Mordka was the birth given name of Mark Zamenhof (1837-1907) * Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007), Yiddish linguist *Mordkhe Veynger Mordkhe Veynger (russian: Мордхе Вейнгер; 1890–1929), more infrequently known as Mikhail Borisovich Veynger (russian: Михаил Борисович Вейнгер) was a Russian and Soviet linguist. An ethnic Jew, he specialised ... (1890–1929), Soviet-Jewish linguist Fictional characters *''Motke the Thief'', a 1913 novel by Sholem Ash * ''Motk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordkhe Veynger
Mordkhe Veynger (russian: Мордхе Вейнгер; 1890–1929), more infrequently known as Mikhail Borisovich Veynger (russian: Михаил Борисович Вейнгер) was a Russian and Soviet linguist. An ethnic Jew, he specialised in the study of the Yiddish language. Born in Poltava, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), his family moved to Warsaw when he was a child, where he studied Germanic philology at the Imperial University of Warsaw. After World War I he established himself at Minsk where he became lecturer at the Belarusian State University. He began the first Yiddish dialect atlas in the 1920s. The atlas is limited to phonology and to Yiddish spoken within the territory of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ... in 1931.Jacobs, Nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai
Mordecai (; also Mordechai; , IPA: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described as being the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. He was promoted to Vizier after Haman was killed. Biblical account Mordecai resided in Susa (Shushan or Shoushan),Esther 2:5–6 of the Bible (New International Version): : Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who has been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah. the metropolis of Persia (now Iran). He adopted his orphaned cousin (Esther 2:7), Hadassah (Esther), whom he brought up as if she were his own daughter. When "young virgins" were sought, she was taken into the presence of King Ahasuerus and was made queen in the place of the exiled queen Vashti. Subsequently, Mordecai discovered a plot of the king's chamberlains Big ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai Maklef
Mordechai (Motke) Maklef (or Makleff) ( he, מרדכי (מותקה) מקלף; 1920–1978) was the third Ramatkal, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and later, director-general of many important public companies in the Economy of Israel, Israeli economy. Early life Makleff was born in the village of Motza, near Jerusalem in the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine in 1920. His parents were among the founders of this first modern village outside Jerusalem, located along the Highway 1 (Israel), road to Jaffa. During the 1929 Palestine riots, inhabitants of the neighbouring Arab village of Qalunya attacked the Makleff home, which was located along the perimeter of Motza, and killed the entire family, except the young Mordechai, who managed to escape the massacre by jumping from a second story window. The murderers included a shepherd employed by the family and the local policeman, who was the only person in the area to own a gun. The murder shocked the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motke Chabad
Motke Chabad (Mordechai Chabad) (c.1820-c.1880) was a Jewish Lithuanian ('' litvak'') jester ('' badchen'') from Vilnius known from many Jewish jokes. translated from 's '''' *Mordechai complained: "Had God willed it, I could have made a hundred golden rubles yesterday". People asked: "How could that be?" He replied: "A rich matron said she would give me one hundred golden rubles to look upon me." They told him: "Mordechai, you fool, why did you refuse?" He answered: "I did not refuse. It was just that she was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendel Grossman
Mordka Mendel Grossman was born on 27 June 1913 in Gorzkowice, Piotrków Governorate, Russian Empire (today Poland). He died on 30 April 1945, during the death marches. He was a photographer and worker in the Statistical Department of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Youth and job in Łódź (1918-1939) He was born in Gorzkowice to a Jewish Hasidic family as a son of Szmul Dawid Grossman and Hanna. After the First World War his family settled in Łódź to Wschodnia street 58. In early youth he (as a child) began to draw portraits, as well as scenes from Jewish life. He started to take photographs, at first as an amateur, then as a professional. He himself colored pictures using aniline paints. In the 1930s he connected with the Jewish Theater in Łódź, picturing scenes of all the performed plays, as well as actors and actresses. He also knew numerous writers, poets, musicians and painters. Just before war's onset, Habima Theatre visited Łódź Łódź, also rendered in Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Zamenhof
Mark Zamenhof (born 27 January 1837 in Suwałki; died 29 November 1907 in Warsaw) is Esperanto form of Markus Fabianoviĉ Samenhof, "Christian" name of Mordeĥaj Zamenhof, son of Fabian Zamenhof and father of L. L. Zamenhof (the creator of Esperanto); teacher of languages French and German. Knight of many orders. Descriptive analysis of the official documents allowed to ascertain that Mordka Zamenhof officially changed his name to Marek and postmortem the name of his father Fajwel to Fabian, what officially was lodged on 20 April 1871, marginally of the earlier birth-certificate of Fejgla. Professional life Some facts from Zamenhof's life are known only from documents of the State Archive of History of Belarus in Grodno. In the spring of 1862 Mark Zamenhof declared his profession as an accountant. The reference about him as teacher appears later in the same year. There is a note in the documents of the Russian secret service about Zamenhof that describes denunciation letter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholem Ash
Sholem Asch ( yi, שלום אַש, pl, Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. Life and work Asch was born Szalom Asz in Kutno, Congress Poland to Moszek Asz (1825, Gąbin – 1905, Kutno), a cattle-dealer and innkeeper, and Frajda Malka, née Widawska (born 1850, Łęczyca). Frajda was Moszek's second wife; his first wife Rude Shmit died in 1873, leaving him with either six or seven children (the exact number is unknown). Sholem was the fourth of the ten children that Moszek and Frajda Malka had together. Moszek would spend all week on the road and return home every Friday in time for the Sabbath. He was known to be a very charitable man who would dispense money to the poor. Upbringing Born into a Hasidic family, Sholem Asch received a traditional Jewish education. Considered the designated scholar of his siblings, his parents dre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Selvinsky
Ilya Lvovich Selvinsky (russian: Илья Сельвинский, 24 October 1899 – 22 March 1968) was a Soviet Jewish poet, dramatist, memoirist, and essayist born in Simferopol, Crimea. Biography Selvinsky grew up in Yevpatoriya in a Jewish family. His father was a furrier merchant. In 1919, Selvinsky graduated from a gymnasium in Yevpatoriya, spending his summers as a vagabond and trying his hands at different trades, including sailing, fishing, working as a longshoreman and circus wrestler, and acting in an itinerant theater. Selvinsky published his first poem in 1915 and in the 1920s experimented with the use of Yiddishisms and thieves' lingo in Russian verse. He is credited with innovations in Russian versification, including the proliferation of taktovik, a Russian nonclassical meter. Extensive travel and turbulent adventures fueled Selvinsky's longer narrative works and cycles, "loadified" (term used by the Russian constructivists) with local color. Selvinsky briefly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
