Here are posts labelled "Yiddish" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich
- Known as: Sholem Aleichem
- Birth: March 2, 1859, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
- Death: May 13, 1916, New York City, New York, USA
- Language: Yiddish, English (?)
- Who he was: Russian/Ukrainian author and playwright; stories of Tevye the Dairyman: Tevye's Daughter; Adventures of Mottel; The Old Country
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Birth: November 21, 1902, Leoncin, Poland
- Death: July 24, 1991, Surfside, Florida, USA
- Language: Yiddish, English
- Who he was: Polish-born American author in Yiddish; The Magician of Lublin; A Day of Pleasure; A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories; Nobel Prize in Literature,
(1978)
- Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 3); Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Sholem Asch
- Birth: November 1, 1880, Kutno, Poland
- Death: July 10, 1957, London, England, UK
- Language: Yiddish
- Who he was: Polish-American Yiddish novelist, dramatist, and essayist; Three Cities; The Nazarene; The Apostle; Mary; Tales of My People (short stories)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Jacob Gershwine
- Known as: George Gershwin
- Birth: September 26, 1898, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Death: July 11, 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Languages: English; Russian (?); Yiddish (?)
- Who he was: American composer who wrote "Someone to Watch Over Me"; "I've Got a Crush on You"; "Embraceable You"; Porgy and Bess; Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris; Pulitzer: Special Citation for Arts (1998)
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Israel Isidore Baline
- Known as: Irving Berlin
- Birth: May 11, 1888, Russian Empire
- Death: September 22, 1989, New York City, New York, USA
- Languages: Russian(?); Yiddish; English
- Who he was: Russian-born American composer who wrote Annie Get Your Gun; Call Me Madam; "God Bless America"; "White Christmas"; "There's No Business Like Show Business"; "Easter Parade"; "Happy Holiday"
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
