1/12 | Yortsayt of Shloyme Mikhoels
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 12 Yortsayt of Shloyme Mikhoels, Actor On the night of January 12, 1948 the great star of the Yiddish stage, Sholyme Mikhoels was murdered outside of Minsk. Born Shloyme Vovsi in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils, Latvia) in 1890 , the future Shloyme (or Solomon) Mikhoels went to school in Riga and attended the law faculty in Petrograd before becoming the lead actor in Aleksandr Granovskii’s Jewish chamber theater, which later became GOSET, the Moscow State Yiddish Theater. Mikhoels performed a wide variety of roles—from the comic to the tragic—although his...
Read More1/4 | Birthday of M. Daniel
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 4 Birthday of M. Daniel, Soviet Yiddish Author & Playwright The popular Soviet Yiddish writer M. Daniel was born Daniel-Mordkhe, later Mark, Meyerovitsh on January 4, 1897 in Dvinsk (today, Daugavpils, Latvia). Daniel made his literary debut with his short story, “אין אַ צײַט אַזאַ [In Such a Time]” in 1924. He wrote for the literary journal דער שטראָם [The Current] and published his first volume of stories a few years later, before the publication of his most important work יוליס [Yulis], which he later adapted...
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