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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 />
 
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 />
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He is survived by his partner of a quarter of a century, Fabrizio.<ref name=jc />
  
 
==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==

Revision as of 15:12, 20 January 2018

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]

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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).