- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAvrum Goldnfoden
- Nickname
- The Yiddish Shakespeare
- Abraham Goldfaden was born on July 24, 1840 in Starokonstantinov, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire [now Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Di farshtoysene tokhter (1915), Szulamit (1916) and Two Kuni Lemel (1966). He died on January 9, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA.
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