Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.
Peretz Hirshbein ; 7 November 1880, Kleszczele, Grodno Governorate – 16 August 1948, Los Angeles) was a Yiddish-language playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director. Because his work focused more on mood than plot, he became known as "the Yiddish Maeterlinck". His work as a playwright and through his own short-lived but influential troupe, laid much of the groundwork for the second golden age of Yiddish theater that began shortly after the end of World War I. The dialogue of his plays is consistently vivid, terse, and naturalistic. Unusually for a Yiddish playwright, most of his works have pastoral settings: he had grown up the son of a miller, and made several attempts at farming.
I. M.Weissenberg was a Yiddish-language writer in Warsaw, Poland. A disciple of I.L. Peretz, he began writing in 1904 and gained recognition for his 1906 masterpiece "A Shtetl". This novella, still regarded as his major achievement, was a literary response to a story by Sholem Asch called "The Shtetl". Unlike Asch's sentimental view of Eastern European Jewish unity in the waning years of the Russian Empire, Weissenberg used a naturalistic form to explore the deep divides between Jews, usually along class lines. In the process, he "stressed the impact of the new revolutionary doctrines upon the townlets, rousing them from their lethargy and shattering their foundations". . "Almost alone among Yiddish writers, Weissenberg was a worker and the son of workers," critic Ruth Wisse notes (p. 27), a fact which shaped both his subject matter and his use of language. He wrote several novels and plays, but remained a consistently strong writer of novellas and short stories.
Baruch Charney Vladeck ; January 13, 1886 – October 30, 1938) was a Belorussian-American labor leader, manager of The Jewish Daily Forward for twenty years, and a member of the New York City Council.
Avrom Reyzen, known as Abraham Reisen, was a Belorussian Jewish-American writer, poet and editor. He was the elder brother of the Yiddishist Zalman Reisen.
Zalman Reisen, sometimes spelled Zalman Reyzen, was a lexicographer and literary historian of Yiddish literature.
Daniel Charney, was a Yiddish poet, memoirist, and journalist.
Der Tog was a Yiddish-language daily newspaper published in New York City from 1914 until 1971. The offices of Der Tog were located on the Lower East Side, at 185 and 187 East Broadway.
Hersh Dovid Nomberg, also written Hersh David Nomberg , was a Polish-Jewish writer, journalist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.
Rokhl Brokhes was a Yiddish-language writer from Minsk. She was the author of stories, plays, and children's stories.
Zechariah Choneh Bergner, better known by his pen name Melech Ravitch, was a Yiddish poet and essayist. Ravitch was one of the world's leading Yiddish literary figures both before and after the Holocaust. His poetry and essays appeared in the international Yiddish press and in anthologies, as well as in translation.
Samuel Leib Zitron, also known as S. L. Citron, was a Hebrew and Yiddish writer, historian, and literary critic. He contributed to the Yiddish press and to nearly all the Hebrew periodicals in the Diaspora over 50 years.
David Yeshayahu Silberbusch was a Galician Hebrew and Yiddish writer and journalist.
Jacob Dinezon, also known as Yankev Dinezon, was a Yiddish author and editor from Lithuania. There are various spellings of Dinezon's name in both Yiddish and English transliteration. Early in his career, Yiddish publications spelled his name דינעזאהן (Dinezohn). Later publications removed the ה and spelled his name דינעזאן or דינעזאָן (Dinezon). In English, his name has been spelled Dienesohn, Dinesen, Dineson, Dinezon, Dinesohn, Dineszohn, Dinezohn, Dynesohn, and Dynezon.
Der nayer veg was a Yiddish language weekly newspaper published from Vilna, Russia between May 11 [O.S. April 28] 1906 and January 25 [O.S. January 12] 1907. It was the central party organ of the Zionist Socialist Workers Party. It replaced the previous organ Der yidisher proletar. Officially the editor-publisher of the newspaper was R.Z. Zibel, but in reality the editorship was managed by Moishe Litvakov. The newspaper had a circulation of some 7,000 copies.
Abraham Zinger was a Russian-Jewish author, feuilletonist, and translator.
Mordecai Spector was a Yiddish novelist and editor from the Haskalah period. He is the author of about 50 realist novels and short stories depicting the life of ordinary people, workers, artisans, and Jewish families in his time. He is best known for his 1884 novel Der Yidisher Muzhik. He spent most of his life in Ukraine and moved to the United States in 1921.
Chaim Leib Fox, was a Yiddish poet, writer and a journalist associated with literary life of Łódź after World War I. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1953, Fox worked on encyclopaedic projects, contributing over 3,000 articles for the Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur and publishing Hundert yor yidishe un hebreyishe literatur in Kanade on Canadian-Jewish diaspora.
Zeydl Shmuel-Yehuda Helman, who often published under the pen name Hazman (הזמ״ן), was a Romanian Jewish actor, songwriter, journalist, and educator. In addition to working as an actor in the Yiddish theatre in Romania and in the United States, he wrote and published a large number of Yiddish theatre songs which were widely performed in the late nineteenth century, making him one of the earliest popular songwriters in the genre.
