1/23 | Birthday of Sergei Eisenstein
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 23 Birthday of Sergei Eisenstein, film director Sergei Eizenshtein was born to a middle-class family in Riga, Latvia. His father was of German-Jewish and Swedish descent and his mother was from a Russian Orthodox family. Sergei studied architecture and engineering at the Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering. In 1918 he joined the Red Army and began studying Japanese. He later cited his knowledge of Japanese and exposure to Kabuki theater as a major influence on his artistic development. In 1920, Eisenstein moved to Moscow, and began his career in...
Read More1/13 | Yortsayt of Reb Mordkhele
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 13 Yortsayt of Reb Mordkhele (Khayim Chemerinsky), Yiddish Writer & Philologist Khayim Chemerinsky was born in 1862 in Motele, a small town near Pinsk (today, Моталь, Belarus), the youngest child in a large family and the only son. Although the family was religious, they embraced contemporary changes in Jewish life. The daughters in the family were the first in the town to study Hebrew and Chemerinsky studied secular subjects in addition to religious ones and read modern Russian authors. After his marriage, he moved to Krivoy Rog (today in central...
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