Levi Eshkol (Shkolnik) (1895–1969)
Levi Eshkol (Shkolnik) was born in Orativ, Vinnytsia region, in 1895 in the Jewish family of Joseph and Dvora. He later changed his surname to a similar-sounding one — Eshkol, which means "grape cluster" in...
Levi Eshkol (Shkolnik) was born in Orativ, Vinnytsia region, in 1895 in the Jewish family of Joseph and Dvora. He later changed his surname to a similar-sounding one — Eshkol, which means "grape cluster" in...
The renowned printmaker, illustrator, and photographer was born in the western Ukrainian town of Drohobych, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Lilien achieved international fame through the use of Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) motifs in his...
Born Bronya Kutzenok into a Hasidic family in the small Ukrainian village of Starovitsky, Peli was exposed to the printed word at a very early age and became a pioneer in Jewish publishing and bookselling....
Throughout two world wars, the Revolution, purges, and exile, the prolific Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist Moisei (Moshe) Beregovskyi (Beregovsky/Beregovskii) created a body of scholarly work that proved essential to the preservation and study of Jewish musical traditions and...
Born near the little town of Chortkiv in what is today western Ukraine, the prolific Jewish writer, journalist, and editor Karl Emil Franzos achieved international renown in the late nineteenth century with his German-language tales...
Omelian Kovch (1884–1944) was prisoner Number 2399 in Barrack 14 at the German concentration camp Majdanek on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin during the Second World War. The front line was approaching,...
Golda Meir (Goldie Mabovitch,1898–1978), born in Kyiv, Ukraine, forged a dramatic life path and career that enshrined her standing as an illustrious political leader in the global arena and a legendary figure in the establishment...
The biographical details of Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher are often vague, contradictory, or disputed as there is only scattered documentation. This very uncertainty has inspired legends about the mysterious life of a pious Hasidic woman who achieved...
Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), a legendary figure in the Parisian avant-garde and the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964. Delaunay was born Sarah Stern into a Ukrainian Jewish...
Viktor Kytasty (1943-2000). American professor, musician, cultural anthropologist, and social activist. He emigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1949. A professional musician who performed on the bandura (a stringed instrument considered the national...