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Judah Leib Cahan (Yiddish: יהודה לייב כהן) (1881 in Vilna, Lithuania – 1937 in New York City), more commonly known as Y.L. Cahan, was a Yiddish folklorist.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 4 relations: I. L. Peretz, Vilnius, Yiddish, YIVO.

  2. 19th-century Lithuanian Jews
  3. History of YIVO
  4. Jewish folklorists
  5. Lithuanian folklorists
  6. Yiddish culture

I. L. Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz (Icchok Lejbusz Perec, יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish. Judah Leib Cahan and i. L. Peretz are Yiddish-language writers.

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Vilnius

Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

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YIVO

YIVO (ייִוואָ) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. Judah Leib Cahan and YIVO are history of YIVO.

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See also

19th-century Lithuanian Jews

History of YIVO

Jewish folklorists

Lithuanian folklorists

Yiddish culture

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Leib_Cahan

Also known as Y.L. Cahan.