David Einhorn ( Yiddish דוד איינהאָרן , Eng. David Einhorn ; 1886 - 1973 ) - Jewish poet , playwright and publicist . He wrote in Yiddish .
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וד איינהאָרן | |
Date of Birth | March 3, 1886 |
Place of Birth | Korelichi , Minsk Province , Russian Empire |
Date of death | February 3, 1973 (86 years) |
Place of death | New York |
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Biography
Born in the family of a military doctor. From the age of 13 he wrote poems in Hebrew . Collaborated in Jewish periodicals (“Idisher Arbeter”, “Der Veg”, “Literary Monetryshftn”, “Der Freind”, etc.). He published several collections of poems in Yiddish in Vilna and Warsaw . In 1912 he was arrested for revolutionary activities in the ranks of the Bund , after a six-month imprisonment in the Vilna prison, he forcedly left Russia.
He lived in France , then in Switzerland . He continued to collaborate in the Jewish press. Since 1917 - co-editor (together with P. L. Gershem) of the Geneva Bund weekly Di Frye Stieme. In 1920 he moved to Berlin , worked as a correspondent for the New York Forverts, printed poems, articles, chapters from a novel about Russian-Jewish emigration to Europe. He worked on the translation of the Bible into Yiddish. In the period from 1927 to 1940, he lived in Paris , edited the Bund’s daily newspaper, Unzer Stieme.
Collaborated in the editorial board of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, at the Jewish National University in Paris , in 1935, he lectured here. In 1940 he left for the USA . He worked as a permanent employee of the newspaper "Forverts".
Bibliography
Poetry
- Quiet tunes / Calmness gezangen . Vilna, 1909.
- 2nd ed., Ext. Warsaw, 1910.
- My poems / Meine leader . Vilna, 1912.
- 2nd ed. 1913.
- When Spring Calls / Ven der Friing Roof . Warsaw, 1917.
- Jewish daughter / Tsu a yidischer tochter . New York, 1917.
- Silent youth / Calmness yugnt . Warsaw, 1920.
- Requiem. Berlin, 1922.
- Collection of poems 1904-1924 / Gesamlte leader 1904-1924 . Berlin, 1925.
- Violet / Violet . Paris, 1930.
- Father merciful / Av ha-rahamim . New York, 1943.
- The collection of poems 1904-1951 / Gesamlte leader 1904-1951 . New York, 1952.
Notes
Links
- Einhorn David - Article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia