Moshe Shalit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Moshe Shalit

researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist of the interwar period

Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1885

Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 19-Jul-1941

Profession: ethnologist, researcher, journalist, anthropologist, essayist, ethnographer

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Moshe Shalit, also Moses, Moyshe, Moishé, Moïsé Salitas, Szalit, ??? ????? [b.
December 22, 1885, Vilna, Russia (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), d.
July 19, 1941, Wilno, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania)], was a researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist of the inter-war period. Shalit devoted himself to the promotion of Yiddish language and of literature in a spirit of openness and intercultural exchange.
Shalit was an active member of the Jewish Scientific Institute, YIVO, which became the Yiddish Institute for Jewish Research.
He was murdered by the Nazis in one of the large massacres in Wilno.