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Collection:  Yiddish & Hebrew Literature

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Frame 29702: Click for full display
Date: 1936
Location: Eishishkes
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Description:
Portrait of a committee headed by Yiddish writer Daniel Charney (seated center) set up at the I.L. Peretz Jewish Library to plan the 100th anniversary celebration of the birth of Yiddish writer Mendele Moykher Sforim (1836-1936).
 
Date: 1936
Location: Eishishkes
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Frame 29703: Click for full display
Description:
Photomontage of portraits of the committee set up to plan the 100th anniversary celebration of the birth of Yiddish writer Mendele Moykher Sforim (center, b. 1836) at the I.L. Peretz Jewish Library, headed by Yiddish writer Daniel Charney.
 
Frame 50430: Click for full display
Date: 1914
Location: Daugavpils
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Studio portrait of the founders of the city's first Yiddish school during a visit from Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (2nd row, center): young men and women, all except two (who were already college students) gymnasium (high school) pupils.
 
Date: 1939
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Frame 51987: Click for full display
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Portrait of Itzik Feffer, a prominent Soviet Yiddish poet and writer.
 
Frame 30843: Click for full display
Date: 1906
Location: Kutno
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Studio portrait of Yiddish writer Shalom Asch with his wife Mathilde.
 
Date: 1909
Location: Lodz
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Frame 28087: Click for full display
Description:
Yiddish writers Mendele Moykher Sforim (1835-1917) (2nd row, center), with Jacob Dineson (to Sforim's right) and Hebrew writer Dovid Frischmann (l), on a visit to the Jarosinski trade school.
 
Frame 28093: Click for full display
Date: Before 1915
Location: Warsaw
Photog: n/a 
Description:
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852-1915), master of modern Yiddish literature, Yiddish and Hebrew poet, dramatist and short-story writer, poses for a portrait at his desk in his study.
 
Date: June 1931
Location: Pruzhany
Photog: Levi, M. 
Frame 32846: Click for full display
Description:
Vignetted portrait of Yiddish writer Joseph Opatoshu (seated, center), with instructors from the I. L. Peretz `folkshul' (secular Jewish elementary school) run by CYSHO (Central Jewish School Organization).
 
Frame 36114: Click for full display
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Location: Warsaw
Photog: Kacyzne, Alter 
Description:
The third-prize-winning design for a monument to Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz, by architect Yoysef Yovin of Lwow.
 
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Frame 39632: Click for full display
Description:
Postcard portraits of Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz (left) and his "rival," Dovid Frischmann, Hebrew and Yiddish poet, critic, and writer. (The card is decorated with the traditional symbols of literature: a lyre, laurels, books, and a quill.)
 
Frame 39645: Click for full display
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Studio portrait of Yiddish writer Israel Joshua Singer.
 
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Frame 39646: Click for full display
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"You should always refer to my father as `the well-known Yiddish writer, poet, and dramatist, Alter Kacyzne, who was also a famous photographer of Jewish life.'" Portrait study of Alter Kacyzne smoking a cigarette.
 
Frame 28805: Click for full display
Date: 1920's
Location: Brzeziny
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Studio portrait: Itzhak Katzenelson, Yiddish and Hebrew writer, (center in white hat), with a group of unidentified well-dressed young men and women, "lovers of literature." (Some hold bouquets of flowers, three men wear pince-nez and hold walking sticks.)
 
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Location: Minsk
Photog: n/a 
Frame 46039: Click for full display
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Portrait of Shmuel Plavnik, also known as "Zimitrok Biadola," a Hebrew and Belorussian writer (1886-1941).
 
Frame 42267: Click for full display
Date: pub. Nov. 4, 1923
Location: Europe
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('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in Yiddish:) "The Hebrew writer J. H. Brenner [Joseph Hayyim Brenner] (center), who was murdered by the Arabs in the latest pogrom in Palestine. Photographed here with his two brothers and two sisters."
 
Date: pub. May 12, 1925
Location: Russia
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Frame 42565: Click for full display
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"Yankev Shmuel Haleyvi Trakhtman, well-known Hebrew writer since the beginning of the Jewish Enlightenment in Russia. Recently died at the age of 95" ('Jewish Daily Forward' Yiddish caption).
 
Frame 31212: Click for full display
Date: 1936
Location: Lomza
Photog: n/a 
Description:
The tombstone in the Catholic cemetery of Abraham Uri Kowner (1842-1909), a Hebrew writer and literary critic, who converted to Christianity.
 
Date: 19th century
Location: Warsaw
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Frame 36115: Click for full display
Description:
Vignetted studio portrait of Hebrew writer Hayyim Nahman Bialik.