Alter Kacyzne

Alter Kacyzne
Born	(1885-05-31)31 May 1885 Vilnius, Russian Empire, (now Lithuania)
Died	7 July 1941(1941-07-07) (aged 56) Ternopil, Occupied Polish Territories (Now in Ukraine)
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.