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January 15, 1987: Note Lurie, Yiddish novelist, died

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January 15, 2021

He was born in the old Jewish colony of Roskoshnaia, Zaporozhye (Zaporizhia) district, Ukraine. During a pogrom in 1919, the majority of the residents in the colony were massacred, and…

May 13,1916: The great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem died

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May 13, 2020

Solomon Naumovich (Sholom Nohumovich) Rabinovich (Russian: Соломо́н Нау́мович (Шо́лом Но́хумович) Рабино́вич) was born in 1859 in Pereiaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl (small town with a large Jewish…

April 30, 1985: Mickey Katz, artist and musician whose Yiddish parody “Home on the Range” became a sensation, dies

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April 30, 2020

“Novelty” musician Mickey Katz, who specialized in Jewish parodies of American classics (such as “Haym afn Range” and “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Katzkills”), died at 75 in Los Angeles on this…

Gershom Scholem sitting in Sukka learning Zohar See page for author / Public domain

February 21 1982: Gershom Scholem dies

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February 21, 2020

Gershom Scholem (December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah.…

February 19, 1997: Leo Rosten, author of “Joys Of Yiddish”, dies at age 88

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February 19, 2020

Leo Rosten, the author of The Joys of Yiddish and numerous other popular, witty and erudite books, died on this date in 1997 in New York City at age 88. Rosten earned…