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[[File:Barry Davis Hamlet.jpg|thumb|Barry Davis [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHOyfd5vYr4 reading the soliloquy] from ''Hamlet'' in Yiddish]]'''Barry Davis''' (1945&ndash;2017) was an actor and Yiddish scholar.

He grew up in a working class family in [[Clapton]], and went to Hackney Downs School, .<ref name=jc>Colin Schindler, [https://www.thejc.com/news/obituaries/obituary-barry-davis-1.456864 "Obituary: Barry Davis"], ''Jewish Chronicle'', 18 January 2018.</ref> and studied history at [[LSE]], in Vienna, and at the Hebrew University, and Yiddish in Columbia, New York.<ref name=danube>Disa Witkowska, Viktoria Makai, [https://danubeonthames.wordpress.com/jewish-danube/yiddish-danube-on-thames-2016/an-interview-with-barry-davis-our-yiddish-language-teacher/ "An interview with Barry Davis, our Yiddish Teacher"] ''Danube on Thames'', [https://danubeonthames.wordpress.com/jewish-danube/yiddish-danube-on-thames-2016/an-interview-with-barry-davis-our-yiddish-language-teacher/ Archived] by the Internet Archive, 20/01/2018).</ref>

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.<ref name=jc />

==Bibliography==
*Barry Davis, ''Yiddish and the Jewish Identity'', History Workshop, 1987

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