Yehoshua Sobol, is an Israeli playwright, writer, and theatre director.
TheHerbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania—commonly called the Katz Center—is a postdoctoral research center devoted to the study of Jewish history and civilization.
YIVO, established in 1925 in Wilno in the Second Polish Republic as the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut, is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. The English name of the organization was changed to the Institute for Jewish Research after its relocation to New York City, but it is still known mainly by its Yiddish acronym. YIVO is now a partner of the Center for Jewish History and serves as the de facto recognized language regulator of the Yiddish language.
Chava Alberstein is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger.
The Second Aliyah was an important and highly influential aliyah that took place between 1904 and 1914, during which approximately 35,000 Jews immigrated into Ottoman-ruled Palestine, mostly from the Russian Empire, some from Yemen.
Shmaryahu Levin, was a Jewish Zionist activist. He was a member of the first elected Russian Parliament for the Constitutional Democratic Party in 1906.
Avidov Lipsker is an Israeli professor of Hebrew Literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel.
Tamar Sovran is an Israeli linguist and Hebrew Culture Studies researcher in Language Department of Tel Aviv University.
Yossi Goldstein is an Israeli historian and biographer. Goldstein's research focuses on Modern Jewish History, the History of Zionism, and the History of the State of Israel. Goldstein is a professor at the Faculty of the Social Sciences and the Humanities at the Ariel University Center. He has published biographies of Eli Horovitz, Levi Eshkol, Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir.
Moshe Idel is a Romanian-Israeli historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism. He is Emeritus Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Israel ben Moses ha-Levi Zamosz was an eighteenth-century Talmudist, mathematician and poet.
Gershon David Hundert is a noted Canadian historian of Early Modern Polish Jewry and Leanor Segal Professor at McGill University.
Vaybertaytsh or mashket, is a semi-cursive script typeface for the Yiddish alphabet. From the 16th until the early 19th century, the mashket font distinguished Yiddish publications, whereas Hebrew square script were used for classical texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, and "Rashi" script for rabbinic commentaries and works in Ladino.
Samuel Zvi Hirsh "Henryk" Peltyn was a Polish Jewish writer, translator, and publisher.
Chava Shapiro, known also by the pen name Em Kol Chai, was a Russian Jewish writer, critic, and journalist. A pioneer of Hebrew women's literature and feminist literary criticism, Shapiro was among the most prolific of the diasporic women writers of Hebrew in the early twentieth century.
Mordechai Tzvi Maneh, also known by the pen name Ha-Metzayer, was a Russian Hebrew lyric poet, translator, and artist.
Tobias Gutmann Feder was a Galician Maskilic writer, poet, and grammarian.
Jacob Samuel Bick was a Galician Maskilic author, playwright, and translator.
Ha-Shaḥar was a Hebrew-language monthly periodical, published and edited at Vienna by Peretz Smolenskin from 1868 to 1884.
