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Portrait of Russian author Sholem Aleichem with wavy hair, glasses, and mustache, wearing a suit and tie with medals on his lapel, early 1900s.

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Portrait of Sholem Asch around 1957, showing him with gray hair, a mustache, and wearing a suit and bow tie.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Key People

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Portrait of Sholem Asch around 1957, showing him with gray hair, a mustache, and wearing a suit and bow tie.

Sholem Asch

American writer

Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

American author

Portrait of Russian author Sholem Aleichem with wavy hair, glasses, and mustache, wearing a suit and tie with medals on his lapel, early 1900s.

Sholem Aleichem

Yiddish author

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Avrom Sutzkever

Israeli writer

Haim Naḥman Bialik.

Haim Naḥman Bialik

Russian-Jewish writer

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Chaim Grade

Yiddish author

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Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

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Micah Joseph Berdichevsky

Russian author

Peretz, I.L.

I.L. Peretz

Polish-Jewish writer

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Jacob Glatstein

American author and literary critic

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Mendele Moykher Sforim

Russian-Jewish author

Ansky, S.

S. Ansky

Russian writer

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Glikl of Hameln

German diarist

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I.J. Singer

American author

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Moyshe Leyb Halpern

American poet

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David Pinski

Yiddish author

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Uri Zvi Greenberg

Israeli poet

Goldfaden, Avrom

Avrom Goldfaden

Jewish author

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines