Abraham Travel

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Abraham Travel; Itzhok Lejb Perez ; Shalom Ash ; Chaim Zhitlovsky and Hirsch David Nomberg in 1908 during the Chernivtsi Conference (from left)

Abraham (Awrom) Reisen (born April 10, 1876 in Koidanowo , Minsk Gouvernement , Russian Empire ; † March 31, 1953 in New York ) was a Yiddish writer and publicist who has translated into numerous languages and promoted Yiddish as the national language.

characterization

Abraham Reisen was one of the most important representatives of the new Yiddish literature , wrote popular, realistic, socially oriented short stories in which he depicts the declining world of the Stetl with a lot of sympathy for the sad everyday life of the poor Jewish population , but also popular, folk-like poems and songs , Humoresques, feuilletons and one-act plays that have been successfully performed as well as filmed (e.g. Gute brider and Dem schadchnß daughter ). He also translated Heinrich Heine , Lenau , Bialik , Perez , Korolenko , Tolstoi and others. a. into Yiddish.

He lived in America from 1914 and was called the Heinrich Heine of the Yiddish language. He was the older brother of Salman Reisen and Sara Reisen .

Life

Abraham Reisen first received the traditional Jewish education, then threw himself energetically on the study of French and Russian writers, was in correspondence with Dinesohn and Perez and published as a teenager in his “Jewish library” as well as in Mordechai Spektor's “house friend ".

He was later a teacher in various cities in Lithuania and then did his four years of military service. From 1899 he worked in Warsaw for various Yiddish magazines, a. a. the "Jewish World".

After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 he fled to Vienna , where he was a close friend of Nathan Birnbaum and took a great part in his work. In 1905 he founded the short-lived weekly Doß jidische wort in Krakow , which for the first time attached Yiddish as the national language, which at that time sparked violent protests in the Jewish world. Apart from brief stays in Warsaw and Vilnius , he then lived in Berlin for some time , only to return to Krakow immediately.

At the end of August 1908 he took part in the Yiddish language conference in Chernivtsi . In Warsaw in 1909 he founded the weekly Di europeische literatur, in which he mainly published translations of works of European literature into Yiddish, and after this paper was also received, he was on the road as a propagandist for Yiddish in European cities, giving lectures etc. He had previously been to America several times, then went to New York in 1911 and published the illustrated weekly Doß naje land there , which became the culmination of a national Jewish -Yiddish renewal movement.

Before the outbreak of war, he stayed in Paris and founded the Najer shurnal there, before traveling again as a national Jewish activist and popular speaker through Europe (Switzerland, Antwerp , Copenhagen , Brussels ). After the outbreak of war he returned to the USA and settled there permanently.

At the end of 1928 he toured Poland and Russia for a long time as a celebrated writer and received a great response in the local press; Schools and libraries were named after him, and he received other honors.

Other works (selection)

  • Doß zwanzikßte jorhund (Ed., 1900)
  • Zajtlider, 1901
  • Derzejlungen un Bilder, 1902
  • Yearbook Progress (Ed., 1904)
  • Episodes fun majn leben (6 volumes, 1929–1935)
  • Collected Writings (12 volumes), 1917
  • Naje Schriftn, Lider un derzejlungen (2 volumes), 1920
  • Humoreßkn, 1920
  • Najjidisch (monthly for literature and art, as publisher, 1922–1923)
  • Collected writings (new edition in 24 volumes), 1929 ff.

Translations of Reisens works into other languages

Reisens works have been translated

literature

  • Travel, Abraham . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . Vol. 14, Jerusalem 1973, pp. 62 f.
  • Future, August 1908
  • Samuel Niger : Pinkass 1912 (Wilna)
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. V, Orient Printing House, Chernivtsi 1931.
  • Who's Who in American Jewry. 1926.
  • Salman Reisen : Lekßikon fun der Yidischer literature un press. Vilnius 1926–1930, Vol. IV.
  • ZF Finkelstein: Abraham Reisen. In: Georg Herlitz (Hrsg.): Jüdisches Lexikon . Vol. IV, 1, Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1927.
  • Moische Olgin: Singing world fun. In: literary sheets 111 ff., 1928 f.
  • Book World, 1929
  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 .
  • Günter Stemberger : History of Jewish Literature. 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Di Fidl - Die Fidel, in the bilingual anthology: Gehat hob ikh a heym - I had a home '. Contemporary Yiddish poetry. Edited by Armin Eidherr. Eye, Landeck (Tirol) ISBN 3-901735-05-4 p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Travel, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Travel, awrom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yiddish writer, publicist, activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Koidanowo
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1953
Place of death new York