1/20 | Birthday of Dr. I.B. Tzipor
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 20 Birthday of Dr. I.B. Tzipor (Yitskhok Shterman), Author & Playwright Yitskhok Sterman, who wrote under the pen-name I.B. Tzipor, was born in Făleşti, Bessarabia (today Moldova) on January 20, 1888. When he was four years old, his family moved to Paris, where he went to French schools and received his PhD. He began his literary career writing in French, publishing his first articles in French journals in 1908. In 1912 he moved to Warsaw and worked as a teacher until the First World War. Under the influence of Y.L. Perets, he switched to writing...
Read More1/8 | Yortsayt of Isaac Raboy
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 8 Yortsayt of Isaac Raboy, Yiddish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, and Cowboy Raboy was born November 1882 in the Podolian village of Zawale (today Завалля, Ukraine). His family moved to northern Bessarabia and settled in Riskhan (today Rîșcani, Moldova) then a thriving, multi-ethnic small town. Here he developed a love of secular subjects and Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew litearture. Following the 1903 Kishinev pogrom and seeking to avoid conscription, Raboy immigrated to New York where he worked in a hat factory. His fellow hatmaker Dovid Ignatov and...
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