- Keni
Liptzin (1856 –
September 28, 1918) (surname
sometimes spelled Lipzin) was a star in the
early years of
Yiddish theater,
probably the
greatest female...
-
language author and
early Zionist. Sol
Liptzin characterized him as "a
master of the
picturesque vitriolic phrase." [
Liptzin, 1972, 46] He was
raised a Hasidic...
- its hero is the
biblical David. Sol
Liptzin characterizes it as the
greatest Old
Yiddish religious epic. [
Liptzin, 1972, 8–9].
Following the
example of...
- "cantonists"
would be a
major subject of his
early poetry and songs. Sol
Liptzin describes Zunser's
songs as
having "simple
words and
catchy tunes", singing...
- Born in Zbarazh, Galicia, he
moved to
Romania in 1845.
According to Sol
Liptzin, this move was
occasioned by the
offense his
townspeople took at his "heresies...
-
Sholem Aleichem as one of the
three great classical Yiddish writers. Sol
Liptzin wrote: "Yitzkhok
Leibush Peretz was the
great awakener of Yiddish-speaking...
- in the
Russian Empire and
emigrated to the
United States in 1892. Sol
Liptzin describes his
short stories as "about
Jewish proletarians, grim portraits...
-
generally seen as the
first stable and
important Yiddish newspaper. Sol
Liptzin writes that in his
early Yiddish narratives,
Mendele "wanted to be useful...
- Sol
Liptzin (July 27, 1901 –
November 15, 1995) was a scholar, writer, and
educator in
Yiddish and
German literature.
Liptzin was born in Sataniv, Russian...
-
Yiddish chivalric romance written by Elia
Levita from 1507 to 1508. Sol
Liptzin described it as "the most
outstanding poetic work in Old Yiddish." The...
