Abraham Moshe Fox

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Abraham Moshe Fuchs ( Hebrew א. מ. פוקס; also AM Fuchs or AM Fuks ; born October 17, 1890 in Oserna , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died May 29, 1974 in Tel Aviv ) was an Austrian-Israeli, Yiddish-speaking writer and journalist.

Life

Fuchs attended the cheder and the four-class elementary school. He then went to Tarnopol and Lviv as a worker and joined the Bundists and the Workers Zionists . Its first publication took place in 1911 in the weekly folkss-frajnd in Lemberg . In 1912 he published his first book ejnsame. noweln in the book series jung-galizje. He tried to emigrate to the USA twice and also published in New York, where he met Sonja Paltun, who had emigrated from Odessa with her family . From 1914 both lived in Vienna, they married in 1915, they had their daughter Lola Carr-Fuchs , born in 1918 , whom they raised neither in Yiddish nor in Viennese, but in High German. During the war he was so physically exhausted that he was not drafted into the military. After the end of the war, he went as a correspondent for the Wiener Jydische Morgenposst in Ruthenia, which was destroyed by the Polish-Russian war and the civil war, and reported on the pogroms and massacres of the Jewish population. In 1921 Fuchs became the Vienna correspondent of the New York Forverts and was now materially well provided for thanks to payment in foreign currency. His reports and features appeared in the Yiddish press in Europe and America. In 1924 he published two more books in Warsaw .

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he came for a few weeks in Gestapo custody , his novel manuscripts were burned by Gestapo. Fuchs and his family fled via Switzerland to Paris and from there to London . After the outbreak of World War II, he was interned as an enemy alien for three months on the Isle of Man. In London he worked for Abraham Nochem Stenzel's magazine losch'n un Leben .

From 1950 he lived in Tel Aviv, where he continued to publish in Yiddish, but also brought out two volumes of stories in Hebrew translation. His stories have also been included in Hebrew anthologies and chrestomathies .

Fuchs wrote short stories about the poor rural Jewish population and the impoverished in the Vienna suburbs. His style is compared to that of Mendele Mojcher Ssforim . He published five books in Yiddish and two in Hebrew. He was honorary president of the Yiddish Writers Association .

His grave is in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv.

Works (selection)

Under the Bridge (1997)

Title and publisher in transcription

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Eidherr, epilogue to: Abraham Mosche Fuchs: Unter der Brücke , 1997, p. 106, fn. 25
  2. ↑ Eidherr, epilogue, 1997, p. 94
  3. ↑ Eidherr, epilogue, 1997, p. 95
  4. ↑ Eidherr, epilogue, 1997, p. 95
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Abraham Moshe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fûqs, Avrāhām Moše
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yiddish writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Oserna (Sboriw)
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1974
Place of death Tel Aviv