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Antokol’skii, Mark Matveevich
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(1843–1902), sculptor. Born near Vilna, the youngest son in a family of a Jewish tavernkeeper, Mark Antokol’skii went on to distinguish himself as the founder of the realist school in Russian sculpture and as the Russian…
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APPENDIX 1: SELECTED PRINT RESOURCES
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APPENDIX 2: SELECTED WEB RESOURCES
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APPENDIX: CANTORS
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APPENDIX: CZECH WRITERS
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APPENDIX: HEBREW WRITERS
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APPENDIX: HUNGARIAN WRITERS
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APPENDIX: JEWISH FILM PERSONALITIES
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APPENDIX: JEWISH ROMANIAN WRITERS
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APPENDIX: PROMINENT JEWISH CHESS PLAYERS
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APPENDIX: RUSSIAN WRITERS
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Appenszlak, Jakub
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(1894–1950), publicist, writer, and translator. In the period between the two world wars, Jakub Appenszlak was a member of the editorial board of the Warsaw daily Nasz Przegląd, publisher of the literary weekly Lektura (…
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Approbation
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An approbation or haskamah (Heb., lit., “agreement” or “approval”; pl., haskamot) is an endorsement or expression of approval of the contents of a book intended for publication, usually placed near the beginning of the t…
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Apt Hasidic Dynasty
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Hasidic dynasty of the Heshel family, originating in the nineteenth century. Its main influence was in Podolia, Bucovina, Moldavia, and Bessarabia. The founder of the Apt dynasty was Avraham Yehoshu‘a Heshel (ca. 1748–18…
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Arad
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Town in western Romania, in the Arad Plain on the Mureş River. From 1552 to 1687, Arad was claimed by the Turkish pashalik of Timişoara, and between 1687 and 1918 it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Habsburg Emp…
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Archival Guides
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Archives
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Hundreds of state and local archives throughout Eastern Europe hold millions of documents that reflect the experience of Jews over many centuries. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and other East European Communist r…
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Argots (Talk)
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Among the social dialects of Yiddish are the argots or slangs of various professions. Unlike regional dialects, which may differ from the standard language in pronunciation, grammar, and lexicon, argots are distinctive p…
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Armed Resistance
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The Jewish armed resistance movement during the Holocaust (1939–1945) was an unprecedented phenomenon. The enslaved Jewish population, facing annihilation, had no effective means to fight off their aggressors. Thus the J…
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Arnshteyn, Mark
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(ca. 1879–1943), Yiddish and Polish playwright and theater director. Mark Arnshteyn (Arnsztejn) was born in Warsaw. In the Polish world, he used the pseudonym Andrzej Marek. His extended family included a Yiddish actress…
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