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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
American author
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch
American writer
Avrom Sutzkever
Israeli writer
Haim Naḥman Bialik.
Haim Naḥman Bialik
Russian-Jewish writer
Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem
Yiddish author
Chaim Grade
Yiddish author
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Micah Joseph Berdichevsky
Russian author
Peretz, I.L.
I.L. Peretz
Polish-Jewish writer
Mendele Moykher Sforim
Russian-Jewish author
Jacob Glatstein
American author and literary critic
Ansky, S.
S. Ansky
Russian writer
I.J. Singer
American author
Glikl of Hameln
German diarist
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David Pinski
Yiddish author
Goldfaden, Avrom
Avrom Goldfaden
Jewish author
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Israeli poet
Moyshe Leyb Halpern
American poet

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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