Barry Davis
Barry Davis (1945–2017) was an actor and Yiddish scholar.
He grew up in a working class family in Clapton, and went to Hackney Downs School, .[1] and studied history at LSE, in Vienna, and at the Hebrew University, and Yiddish in Columbia, New York.[2]
He was a founder member of Icebreakers and a member of the Jewish Gay Group. He took a leading role in the Kabbalat Shabbat for the Jewish gay community on Friday nights at a location provided by Rabbi Dov Marmur of Alyth Gardens Synagogue.[1]
He is survived by his partner of a quarter of a century, Fabrizio.[1]
Bibliography
- Barry Davis, Yiddish and the Jewish Identity, History Workshop, 1987
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Colin Schindler, "Obituary: Barry Davis", Jewish Chronicle, 18 January 2018.
- ↑ Disa Witkowska, Viktoria Makai, "An interview with Barry Davis, our Yiddish Teacher" Danube on Thames, Archived by the Internet Archive, 20/01/2018).