Joel Baer Falkovich

Joel Baer Falkovich (, died in the 1870s) was an early Yiddish Theatre dramatist, literary figure, and supporter of the Haskalah from the Russian Empire.

Biography Falkovich was born in Dubno, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire during the early nineteenth century, although the exact date is uncertain. These were published at a time when secular Yiddish literary works were in demand for the first time, and before the Yiddish theatre was fully established as a genre by Avraham Goldfaden. He also translated Philotas by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing into Hebrew, titling it and publishing it in Odessa in 1868.

At some point he converted to Christianity, although he did not turn against the Jewish population, but appeared at trials to defend them against charges of Blood libel and wrote essays in defense of them. Although his exact date of death is unknown, Zalman Reisen speculated that he died in the 1870s.