2/6 | Yortsayt of Mira Lobe
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...
Read MoreShalom Auslander in Conversation at Skirball
Skirball, in association with Yiddishkayt, hosts author Shalom Auslander in conversation with Peter Mehlman on January 24.
Read More1/6 | Birthday of Jacobo Timerman
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 6 Birthday of Jacobo Timerman, Argentine Writer & Human Rights Activist Today is the birthday of Jacobo Timerman, born in Bar, Podolia Province, Ukraine on January 6, 1923. Raised in the Once neighborhood, Timeran was active in the leftist Zionist youth movement haShomer haTzair. He rose to prominence as a journalist and founder of the Buenos Aires, La Opinión. He defied the military junta by calling attention to the government’s campaign of terror against civilians in Argentina during the Guerra Sucia, or Dirty War, beginning in 1975. In 1977,...
Read More12/12 | Birthday of Vasily Grossman
Today in Yiddishkayt… December 12 Birthday of Vasily Grossman, Author Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was born on December 12, 1905 in Barditshev (today Berdychiv, Ukraine) the once-major Jewish city made famous in Yiddish literature in the work of Mendele Moykher-Sforim and Sholem Aleichem. His first major story, “In the Town of Berdichev” brought him to the attention of Maxim Gorki and Isaak Babel who said of it that “Our Yid capital has been seen through new eyes.” His magnum opus, Life and Fate, written about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and...
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