A sign in the Yiddish Writers’ Garden, a garden located in the center of Yiddish books in the city, an institution established in 1980 with the aim of preserving literature written in Yiddish
Click for sign's details On the current sign appear Journalists, writers and poets (some for children):
Jacob Kreplak (1885-1945), born in Zabludow, Poland. Journalist and writer. After being banned for his revolutionary activities, he moved to Antwerp, Belgium and in 1915 to the United States. He wrote a large number of articles and plays for children.
Click for a larger image Chaver-Paver (1901-1964), born in Bershad, Ukraine. The pen name of Gershon Einbinder, writer and poet. Who is considered the founder of Yiddish children’s literature in the United States. In 1923 he emigrated to the United States, where he published poems and stories for children as well as novels for an older audience.
The pen name is taken from a Yiddish folk song that was common in Eastern Europe.
Click for a larger image Aaron Nissenson (1898-1964), was born in Chepeli, Ukraine. Journalist, writer and poet. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 13. He edited newspapers in New York and published stories and poems.
Click for a larger image Joseph Rolnick (1879-1955), born in Mir, Belarus. poet. He emigrated to the United States in 1899, after a year he returned to Europe and in 1907 he finally emigrated to the United States. Considered one of the pioneers of modern Yiddish poetry.
Click for a larger image Yehoash (1872-1927), born in Virbalis, Lithuania. The pen name of Solomon Blumgarten, a writer, translator and poet who was best known for the "Yehoash Translation" - the Yiddish translation of the Bible. At the age of 8 (1980) he immigrated to the United States, later (1914) he moved to Israel and returned to the United States after the First World War.
Click for a larger image Jacob Pat (1890-1966), born in Bialystok, Poland. Educator, writer and journalist. Pat, who was very active in the labor movement (Bund), immigrated to the United States before the start of World War II, where he continued his political activity, and was one of those in the Bund organization that supported the newly established state of Israel. He wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Click for a larger image Levin Kipnis (1894-1990), born in Ushomyr, Ukraine. Writer and children’s poet. Wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish hundreds of stories and songs for children. In 1913 he immigrated to Israel where he worked until the day of his death. He also founded a children’s theater in which he wrote many plays. Winner of the Israel Prize for Children’s Literature (1978).
A commemorative plaque is found on the wall of the house where he lived in Tel Aviv
Click for sign's details And one of his poems is immortalized in one of the story gardens in Holon
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Click for a larger image Isaac Metzker (1901-1984), born in Łanowicze Małe, Poland. Journalist and writer. Emigrated to the United States in 1924. Wrote many articles in the Forward newspaper and also published several books.
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