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'''Barry Davis''' (1945–2017) was an actor and Yiddish scholar.
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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''' (1945–2017) 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 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>

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Barry Davis reading the soliloquy from Hamlet in Yiddish
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]

Bibliography

  • Barry Davis, Yiddish and the Jewish Identity, History Workshop, 1987

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Colin Schindler, "Obituary: Barry Davis", Jewish Chronicle, 18 January 2018.
  2. Disa Witkowska, Viktoria Makai, "An interview with Barry Davis, our Yiddish Teacher" Danube on Thames, Archived by the Internet Archive, 20/01/2018).