Mordhele (Chaim Chemerinsky) - Jewish writer, fabulist.
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| Birth name | Chaim Chemerinsky |
| Date of Birth | 1862 |
| Place of Birth | Motyl market town, Pinsk district , Minsk province , Russia, now Ivanovo district , Brest region , Belarus |
| Date of death | 1917 |
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| Years of creativity | 1903 - 1917 |
| Genre | Fable |
| Language of Works | , and |
Origin
Born in the Belarusian town of Motyl (according to other Motyl ) in the family of a merchant.
Activities
It is mainly known as a kind of fabulist, thanks to translations into Yiddish of a number of famous fables (mainly Krylova ). In fairness, it should be noted that this was not an interlinear translation, but an artistic processing of fables. So his first literary experience was a satire published in the Der Freind newspaper in 1903, written based on Krylov’s fable “The Beast of Animals”. In many fables of Mordhel, the influence of national folklore is felt, all of them are filled with linguistic nuances and puns.
These fables are sustained in the genre of political satire, mainly the morals of that time were ridiculed in them.
Mordhele is also considered one of the founders of Jewish philology and dialectology . In this field, his long-standing fundamental work on Jewish grammar is best known, excerpts from which were first published in the Pinkos collection ( Vilna , 1913 ).
In the last years of his life, Mordhel wrote several works in Hebrew (including an opera based on the biblical “ Song of Songs ” and an autobiography “My Town Mozyl”, which is considered one of the best examples of Jewish memoirs published only after the author’s death [1]
Political Opinions
From 1900 to 1906, Mordhel participated in the Zionist movement and played a role among the Zionists, and then among the territorialists . Mordhele can be ranked among the socialists , but he was considered "pale pink."
Bibliography
- Fables, ed. “Science”, Ekaterinoslav, 1919.
- Reizen Z., Lexicon, Wilna, 1926. M. K
Notes
Links
- Chemerinsky, Chaim // Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron . - SPb. , 1908-1913.