Dan Yaron
Dan Yaron , born H. Leinwänder (born April 17, 1919 in Vienna ; died 1999 in Israel ), was an Austrian-Israeli official and translator.
Life
H. Leinwänder was a member of the Jewish scout organization Makkabi Hazair in his youth in Vienna . After the annexation of Austria , he managed to enter Palestine illegally in May 1938 . His parents were killed while fleeing Germany in the Kladovo transport in 1939 . Yaron was a soldier in the British Special Night Squads command in 1938 . He worked in various kibbutzim and later lived in Tel Aviv and Herzliya . From 1946 he worked as the administrative secretary of the Tel Aviv City Council in the Department of Education, Youth and Culture.
After his retirement in 1984 he began to translate Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf into Hebrew. Selected chapters, around a third of the original, were provided with explanations and footnotes by the historian Moshe Zimmermann . The abbreviated translation was published in 1990 by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , self-published by Akademon, regardless of the copyrights that were held by the state of Bavaria until 2016 . The text should only be used for study and research purposes.
Book edition
- Peraḳim mi-tokh “Maʾavaḳi” shel Adolf Hiṭler (Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Selected Chapters). Translation into Hebrew Dan Yaron. Editors Moshe Zimmermann , Oded Heilbronner . Jerusalem: Aḳademon 1992 DNB and 1995 DNB
literature
- Dan Yaron , short biography in German, English, Hebrew and a portrait photo, in: Alisa Douer : Neuland. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , pp. 272f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
- Gisela Dachs : Not Wagner, but Hitler , in: Die Zeit, March 3, 1995
Web links
- In Israel, 'Mein Kampf' at enduring taboo , at Ynetnews , February 1, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the year of death in Ynetnews, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yaron, Dan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leinwänder, H. (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Israeli official and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1999 |
| Place of death | Israel |