Benno Weiser Varon

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Benno Weiser Varon (born October 4, 1913 in Chernivtsi , † October 5, 2010 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) was an Israeli diplomat .

Life

Weiser's family fled the Russian troops from Galicia to Vienna after the outbreak of the First World War . When Benno Weiser began studying medicine at the University of Vienna , the Austrian National Socialists tried to forcibly prevent Jewish students from studying, which resulted in Weiser being drawn into fights. Wise literary and political interests also resulted in an engagement at Oscar Teller 's "Jewish-Political Cabaret", founded in 1927, in which he worked as a "house poet" from 1932. Weiser not only wrote lyrics, but also appeared in cabaret himself. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, Weiser had to break off his medical studies and flee Austria. He emigrated to South America, lived in Ecuador since 1939 , where he was successful as a political editorial in leading Spanish-language newspapers in South America. From January 30, 1942, his autobiographical novel Yo era Europeo appeared in Spanish in fifty-three episodes in his own weekly newspaper "La Defensa". It was one of the first German exile novels , which was published in book form in 1943 by Editorial Fernandez in Quito .

After the end of the Second World War , he headed the Latin America department of the Jewish Agency based in New York City . After the establishment of the State of Israel , he became head of its information service for South America. In 1960 he moved to Israel and took the name Varon. In 1961 he was a journalist in the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem . In 1964 Israel appointed him ambassador to the Dominican Republic , so that in fact he only stayed in Israel for four years of his life. After further diplomatic work in the Israeli mission to the United Nations , he was ambassador to Paraguay from 1968 to 1972 . During an attack by Palestinians on the embassy in Asunción in 1970, an embassy secretary was shot dead and another seriously injured. Weiser luckily escaped the attack.

Weiser lived in Boston from 1973 , then in Brookline. From 1986 he taught as a professor for Judaic Studies at Boston University . In addition to writing for the newspaper, Weiser also wrote poems, essays and novels in German, Spanish and English; he also spoke Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew.

Weiser had been married to Miriam Laserson for the second time since 1956. He has a daughter, Daniela Weiser-Varon, and a son, Leonard Weiser-Varon. Sage Varon was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge , Massachusetts.

Fonts

  • I was a European: novel of a generation , from the span. trans. by Reinhard Andress and Egon Schwarz. With an afterward from Reinhard Andress, Vienna: Picus-Verl. 2008 ISBN 978-3-85452-637-7
  • El mirador del mundo , Quito: Editorial Fernández, 1941.
  • Yo era Europeo novela, Quito, Ecuador, Editorial Fernández, 1943.
  • Visiting card Poems, New York: Marstin Press, 1957
  • For heaven's sake: a one-act play in seven scenes , New York: American Committee for Israel's Tenth Anniversary Celebration, 1958
  • Si yo fuera paraguayo; artículos aparecidos y charlas pronunciadas en el Paraguay , Asunción, Editorial del Centenario, 1972.
  • The haunting of Meyer Levin , in: Midstream , August / September 1976, Volume XXII, No. 7th
  • How, though Jewish, I did not become a doctor in: Midstream , November 1978
  • Professions of a Lucky Jew , New York: Cornwall Books, 1992

Film (participation)

  • Alisa Douer : Vienna 1938. Return to a distant country

literature

  • Oscar Teller (Ed.): David's Witz-Schleuder. Jewish-Political Cabaret. 50 years of cabaret theaters in Vienna, Berlin, London, New York, Warsaw and Tel Aviv , Darmstadt: Darmstädter Blätter 1982 ISBN 3-87139-073-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teller describes him as a house poet, Teller p. 368
  2. ↑ Midstream. A quarterly jewish review. New York link
personal data
SURNAME Sage Varon, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiser, Benno; Weiser, Benjamin; Varon, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli diplomat and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2010
Place of death Brookline , Massachusetts