Alter Kacyzne | |
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| Born | 31 May 1885 |
| Died | 7 July 1941 (aged 56) |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, writer |
Alter Kacyzne (Yiddish: אַלטער קאַציזנע, Alter Kacizne; 31 May 1885 in Vilnius, Russian Empire – 7 July 1941 in Ternopil, General Government for the Occupied Polish Territories) was a Jewish (Yiddish) writer, poet and photographer, known as one of the most significant contributors to Jewish-Polish cultural life in the first half of the 20th century. Among other things, he is particularly known as a photographer whose work immortalised Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s.