Moshe Shalit

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Moshe Shalit (Yiddish: משה שאליט; 22 December 1885, Vilnius - 19 July 1941, Vilnius) was a researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist of the inter-war period.

Shalit devoted himself to the promotion of Yiddish language and of literature in a spirit of openness and interculturalism. He was an active member of the Jewish Scientific Institute, YIVO, which became the Yiddish Institute for Jewish Research. Shalit was murdered by Nazi Germany in one of the large massacres in Vilnius.^[1]