2/7 | Birthday of Moyshe Stavsky
Today in Yiddishkayt… February 7 Birthday of Moyshe Stavsky (Moshe Stavi), Yiddish and Hebrew Writer Moyshe Stavsky was born in the White Russian shtetl of Antopol (today Антопаль, Belarus). His father was a maskil who ran a grain concern and was a leader of the town’s Jewish community. Although young Moyshe loathed going, he attended the local kheder until he reached bar-mitzva age and attended primary school in Antopol. After a fire at his family’s mill, young Moyshe and his family moved to Kremenchug. At 16 he left home and lived in Warsaw and, for a short...
Read MoreSchund! at the Israel Film Festival
On March 17, yidARTS joins forces with the Israel Film Festival for the film’s West Coast premiere.
Read More1/20 | Yortsayt of Avrom Sutzkever
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 20 Yortsayt of Avrom Sutzkever, Poet and Partisan January 20 marks the second anniversary of the death of the great Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, who died in Tel Aviv at the age of 96. He was born on July 15, 1913 in Smorgon (today Smarhoń, Belarus) about 60 miles from Vilna . He published his first work in the Jewish Scouts magazine and became a part of the writer and artist circle called יונג װילנע (Young Vilna). After the German invasion in the summer of 1941, Sutzkever and his wife Freydke used the guise of forced labor to help smuggle arms...
Read More1/9 | Birthday of Chaim Nachman Bialik
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 9 Birthday of Chaim Nachman Bialik, Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik was born on January 9, 1873 in the rural Volhynian settlement of Rad’i (Рады) near Zhytomyr (the settlement no longer exists) and was raised in Zhytomyr. He began a traditional Jewish education in kheder and bes-medresh, and attended the prestigious yeshiva at Volozhin. It was at yeshiva that Bialik devoted himself to the acquisition of secular education. He left Volozhin for Odessa in 1891 to join the emerging Jewish (Hebrew and Yiddish) literary scene. In the early years of the 20th...
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