About the Book
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Translators to Yiddish, Yiddish-Language Poets, Elie Wiesel, Marc Chagall, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ion Clugru, Abraham Goldfaden, Itche Goldberg, Sholem Aleichem, Yosef Tunkel, Moshe Shalit, Moissaye Joseph Olgin, Itzik Manger, Charles Jaffe, Yankev Shternberg, Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin, Isaac Leib Peretz, Esther Kreitman, Israil Bercovici, Dovid Katz, Leah Horowitz, Sholem Asch, Glckel of Hameln, Isaac Nachman Steinberg, S. Ansky, Abraham Sutzkever, Micha Josef Berdyczewski, Nahum Gergel, Celia Dropkin, David Bergelson, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Elia Levita, H. Leivick, Mordechai Gebirtig, Yehiel De-Nur, Hannah Kahn, Itzik Feffer, Joseph Opatoshu, List of Yiddish Language Poets, Srul Bronshtein, Mikhoel Felsenbaum, Leon Kobrin, David Edelstadt, Itzhak Katzenelson, Peretz Markish, Joseph Perl, Anna Margolin, Peretz Hirschbein, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Abraham Nahum Stencl, Solomon Ettinger, Morris Rosenfeld, Shira Gorshman, Eliakum Zunser, Josef Burg, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Chava Rosenfarb, Zelig Kalmanovich, Chaim Grade, Miriam Hoffman, Der Nister, Yehoash, Isaac Meir Weissenberg, Hillel Zeitlin, Moyshe Kulbak, David Hofstein, Rebecca Bat Meir Tiktiner, Avrom Ber Gotlober, Jacob Glatstein, Israel Isidor Elyashev, Hirsh Glick, Bella Rosenfeld, Leib Kvitko, Olexander Beyderman, Moyshe Altman, Israel Joshua Singer, Zalman Shneur, Elye Gordon, Gabriel Preil, Moishe Broderzon, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, Ryhor Reles, Natan Ilyich Zabara, Jacob Ben Isaac Ashkenazi, Israel Orenstein, Yechiel Lerer, Mordechai Strigler, Michael Lev, Nachum Meir Sheikewitch. Excerpt: Abraham Goldfaden Abraham Goldfaden Yiddish: (born Avrum Goldnfoden; the Romanian spelling Avram Goldfaden is common; 24 July 1840 in Starokostiantyniv - 9 January 1908 in New York) was an Ukrainian -born Jewish poet, playwrigh...