Aaron Zeitlin
Aaron Zeitlin (born May 22, 1898 in Uwarowicze , Russian Empire ; died September 28, 1973 in New York City ) was a Polish - American Yiddish- language writer .
Life
Aaron Zeitlin was a son of the writer Hillel Zeitlin and Esther Kunin, a brother was the writer Elchanan Zeitlin (1902-1941). Aaron Zeitlin grew up in Gomel and Vilna . As a teenager, Zeitlin wrote for the children's newspapers Perachim (German: Flowers) and Hashachar (German: Dawn), which were published in Odessa . In 1914 he published the story Metatron in the newspaper Di yidishe velt (Eng. The Jewish World). In 1920/21 he and his brother Elchanan stayed in Palestine .
Zeitlin wrote a variety of articles in the Yiddish and Hebrew press in Eastern Europe, writing on Yiddish literature, poetry, and parapsychology. From 1930 to 1934 he headed the Yiddish PEN Club in Warsaw. With the support of his friend Isaac Bashevis Singer , he published the monthly Yiddish literary magazine Globus between 1932 and 1934 . His play Chelmer Chachomim (literally " the wise men of Chelm ", meaning: the shield citizens or fools of Chelm) was performed with great success in New York City and Zeitlin received an invitation to New York in March 1939 from the Yiddish actor and theater director Maurice Schwartz York. He thus escaped the German persecution of the Jews , to which his father and brother fell victim. Zeitlin worked for the US theater and taught Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York.
Zeitlin is the creator of the world famous song Donna Donna with the music of Sholom Secunda . In 1969 Zeitlin and Abraham Sutzkever received the Itzik Manger Prize, which was awarded for the first time .
Works (selection)
- Metatron: apocaliptic poems . 1922
- The cult fun gornisht un di art vi may zayn . 1926
- Brener: dramatic diet in 3 acts, 10 pictures . 1929
- Yaakov Frank: drame in zeks pictures . 1929
- Brenendike earth: roman . 1937
- Ben ha-esh veha-yesha ' . 1957
- Lider fun khurbn and lider fun gloybn . 1967
- Ha-meziut ha-aheret . Tel Aviv: Yavneh, 1967
- Parapsychologia murchevet . Tel Aviv: Yavneh, 1973
- Liṭerarishe un filosofishe eseyen . New York: Alṿelṭlekhn Yidishn ḳulṭur-ḳongres, 1980
- Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith . Edited and translated by Morris Faierstein. 2007
literature
- Zivia Lubetkin : Zagłada i powstanie . Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza, 1999 ISBN 83-05130-41-X
- Mikhail Krutikov, Shachar Pinsker: Zeitlin Family , in YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (en)
Web links
- Literature by and about Aaron Zeitlin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Aaron Zeitlin in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Rafał Żebrowski: Zeitlin (Cejtlin; Cajtlin) Aron , at jhi
- Zeitlin (Cejtlin, Cajtlin) Aron , at Wirtualny Sztetl (pl)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Year of death in 1976
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeitlin, Aaron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aron Cajtlin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uwarowicze |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1973 |
| Place of death | New York City |