Nadir, Moishe

Moishe Nadir ( Yiddish משה נאַדיר , present name and surname Isaac Rise ) ( 1885 - 1943 ) - Jewish writer in Yiddish.

Moshe Nadir
Yiddish משה נאַדיר
Birth name	Isaac Rise
Date of Birth	1885 ( 1885 )
Place of Birth	Narayev village, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary [1]
Date of death	1943 ( 1943 )
A place of death	New York
Citizenship	USA
Occupation	prose writer , poet , translator
Years of creativity	since 1902
Language of Works	Yiddish

Born in 1885 in the village of Narayev, today the Berezhansky district of the Ternopil region of Ukraine . Until the age of 12, Nadir studied in a cheder , his father, a native of Zolochev , taught his son the German language ^[2] .

In 1898 he emigrated to the United States with his family. In 1902, he first sent poems and articles to Teglychne Herold (The Daily Herald) and has since published in various newspapers, both under his real name and under many pseudonyms. In 1915, under the pseudonym Moishe Nadir published a collection of erotic poetry called Wild Roses, which provoked heated discussion.

Author of books: “From Yesterday to Tomorrow”, “Under the Sun” (1926), “Tales with Morality” (1919). In addition to them, Nadir wrote articles and philosophical essays, reviews and plays. He translated into Yiddish Mark Twain , Leo Tolstoy and Anatole France . Nadir also published a number of articles in English, although he spoke

I do not write in English because I do not want. More precisely, I write in English when I do not need to say anything special. When I write about what affects the heart, I write in Yiddish. I think in Yiddish and it is written by itself.

Nadir was an active communist and in 1926 he visited Europe : Paris , Warsaw , Vilnius and Soviet Russia . After the conclusion of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, he left the Communist Party . He died in New York in 1943 .