Boris Smolar

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Boris Smolar (born May 27, 1897 in Rowno , Russian Empire ; died January 31, 1986 in New York City , also Ber Smoliar ) was a Russian-American journalist.

Life

Smolar began as a war correspondent during World War I for the Warsaw and Moscow press. He experienced the Russian October Revolution in Kazan , where he joined the Bundists . In his home town of Rovno, he witnessed the pogroms of the Polish Army in Volhynia . He worked as a journalist in Berlin in the early 1920s and wrote for Yiddish-language children's book publishers in Berlin and New York. After emigrating to the USA in 1924 he started working for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), which employed him as a correspondent in Europe. In 1930 he reported from the Soviet Union about the persecution of the Jews and from Berlin about the political rise of Adolf Hitler. In March 1932, in Berlin, he came into conflict with the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith and its representative Ludwig Holländer , because the JTA bluntly denounced German anti-Semitism, while the representatives of the German Jews remained silent and hoped for better times.

Smolar became editor of the JTA and retired in 1967. He continued to write weekly columns for the JTA and the Jewish Daily Forward . He lived in Manhattan .

In 1997 the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee donated the "Boris Smolar Prize".

Fonts (selection)

  • Ber Smoliar: Children's world , drawings by Issachar Ber Ryback , Threshold Verlag, Berlin 1922. Contained in Yiddish and in German translation in: David Bergelson, Lejb Kwitko, Peretz Markisch, Ber Smoliar: Der Galaganer Hahn: Yiddish children's books from Berlin; Yiddish and German , from d. Yidd. transfer and ed. by Andrej Jendrusch, Berlin: Ed. DODO, 2003 ISBN 3-934351-06-9
  • Di lebediḳe ariṭmeṭiḳ: ṿitsiḳe ariṭmeṭishe oyfgabn: shpiln un ḳuntsn , Varshe, New York: Farlag ḳinder ṿelṭ, 1923
  • Di kishefmakhern: an eynaḳṭer far ḳleyne ḳinder , Varshe, New York: Farlag ḳinder ṿelṭ, 1922
  • Soviet Jewry today and tomorrow , New York, Macmillan 1971
  • In the service of my people , Baltimore, Md .: Baltimore Hebrew College, 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 754.
  2. ^ Verena Dohrn : Diplomacy in the Diaspora: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Berlin (1922–1933) in: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook (2009)
  3. ↑ JDC sets up journalism prize for Israel-Diaspora relations  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. JTA, June 5, 1997@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jta.org  
personal data
SURNAME Smolar, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smoliar, Ber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovno Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1986
Place of death New York City