2/8 | Birthday of Chaver Paver
Today in Yiddishkayt… February 8 Birthday of Chaver Paver (Gershon Einbinder), Yiddish Writer Chaver Paver is the pen-name of the esteemed Yiddish writer Gershon Einbinder. Einbinder was born on February 8, 1901 in Bershad (today Бершадь, Ukraine). At the age of 19, he moved to Romania and eventually settled in the United States in 1924. He lived in New York and Los Angeles, where he died in 1964. Chaver Paver made his debut in Yiddish literature in the 1920s as a children’s writer. He wrote five volumes of children’s stories and several plays. However, the...
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Today in Yiddishkayt… February 6 Yortsayt of Mira Lobe, Children’s Author Today is the yortsayt of the prolific Austrian children’s author Mira Lobe. Mira Lobe was born Hilda Mirjam Rosenthal on September 17, 1913 in Görlitz, then in the Province of Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia. She grew up in a Jewish, middle-class family and began writing stories as a young girl. After her father’s death when she was 14 years old, her mother moved the family to Friedeberg am Queis (today Mirsk, Poland) and Mira, as she was called, went to live in Rabenberg where she...
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