People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast: People from Khmelnytskyi, People from Letychiv, People from Medzhybizh, Baal Shem Tov, Abraham Goldfaden

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: People from Khmelnytskyi, People from Letychiv, People from Medzhybizh, Baal Shem Tov, Abraham Goldfaden, Nachman of Breslov, Jack Liebowitz, Dmytro Chygrynskiy, Nikifor Grigoriev, Leonard Krupnik, Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Vera Schmidt, Alexander Rutskoy, Oscar Williams, Boruch of Medzhybizh, Micha Josef Berdyczewski, Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Oleksandr Ponomaryov, Volodymyr Zatonsky, Tzvi Tzur, Jozef Zaj czek, Joseph Barondess, Hershele Ostropoler, Anatoly Bondarchuck, Faina Melnyk, Abraham Gershon of Kitov, Volodymyr Sichynskyi, Lob Nevakhovich, Andranik Alexanyan, Dmitry Manuilsky, Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov, Pyotr Latyshev, Abraham Epstein, Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Morris Zimmerman, Joseph Stacher, Mykola Burachek, Yoel Sirkis, Mykhailo Dunets, Serhiy Shevchuk, Nikolay Mozgovoy, Nadezhda Meiher, Zvee Scooler, Vyacheslav Hrozny, Mykola Bazhan, Mykola Marchak, Volodymyr Nechyporuk, Vladimir Bodnar, Tomasz Jozef Zamoyski, Tetyana Filonyuk, Klemens Zamoyski, Vladimir Pavlovich Belyayev, Maciej Rybi ski. Excerpt: Abraham Goldfaden Yiddish: (born Avrum Goldnfoden; the Romanian spelling Avram Goldfaden is common; 24 July 1840 in Starokostiantyniv- 9 January 1908 in New York) was an Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre. In 1876 he founded in Romania what is generally credited as the world's first professional Yiddish-language theater troupe. He was also responsible for the first Hebrew-language play performed in the United States. The Avram Goldfaden Festival of Ia i, Romania, is named and held in his honour. Jacob Sternberg called him the Prince Charming who woke up the lethargic Romanian Jewish culture. Israil Bercovici wrote that in his works ...we f...