Eliakum Zunser (Eliakum Badchan) אליקום צונזער (אליקום בדחן)

Eliakum Zunser, known as Eliakum Badchen, was born on October 28, 1840 in Vilna and died on September 22, 1913. He grew up poor and worked from a young age.

He became one of the most famous badchanim of his time, a Yiddish poet and songwriter with roughly 600 songs, about a quarter of which survive. He spent his last years in the United States, and a 1905 New York Times article called him "the father of Yiddish poetry".