David Einhorn (poet)

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David Einhorn (born March 3, 1886 in Karelitschy in Grodnenskaya Oblast , Russian Empire ; died February 3, 1973 in New York City ) was a Yiddish writer and journalist.

Life

Einhorn grew up as the son of a military doctor and rabbi and attended school in Waukawysk . He wrote his first poems in Hebrew. Under the influence of the socialist Bundists , he then wrote Yiddish and published linguistically novel poems in 1909, which were very well received. In the following year he worked as secretary to the poet Mendele Moicher Sforim . In 1912 he was imprisoned in Vilnius for six months for social revolutionary activities and had to emigrate to Bern , where he stayed during the First World War. Towards the end of the war he first went to Radom and Warsaw and wrote articles in socialist publications. Between 1920 and 1924 he lived in Berlin , where he took part in the editing of the collective work "Der Onheyb", which was published in 1922 by the Berlin publishing house " Wostok ". In Berlin he began to write as a correspondent for the New York Yiddish-language newspaper " Forverts ". Einhorn was now disappointed by the development in the communist movement and moved on to Paris in 1924 . In France he published a literary monthly and also received orders for articles for a Yiddish "Algemeyne entsiklopedye". After the outbreak of World War II, he fled from the German troops to the USA in 1940, where he continued to write for the newspaper "Forverts".

Einhorn's lyrics were also set to music, so Solomon Rosowsky composed the music for a lullaby.

Fonts (selection)

  • Meyne songs . Poems. Vilnius: Ṿilner Ferlag fun BA Ḳletsḳin, 1912
  • with B Tsuḳerman: Shṭilʹe yugenṭ . Poems. Warsaw: Nayer farlag, 1920
  • Shṿarts-royṭ: thoughts and pictures . Warsaw: Farlag Life Questions, 1921.
  • Rekviyem . Poem. Illustration Menachem pear tree . Berlin: Rosenthal, 1922
  • Shemarya Gorelik; Max Weinreich; David Einhorn: The Onheyb. zamlbukh far liṭeraṭur un ṿisnshafṭ . Berlin: Wostok, 1922
  • Zamlte lids, 1904-1924 . Berlin 1925
  • Violet, eyelids. 1925-1930 . Paris: Ferlag Triangel, 1930
  • Zamlte lids, 1904-1951 . Edited by Benjamin Einhorn. New York: Arbeter Ring bay the Education Department, 1952.

literature

  • Shifra Kuperman: David Einhorn (1886-1973). Contributions to his biography , Basel Uni 2000
  • Shifra Kuperman: David Einhorn's Lost Papers , in: Khulyot, Journal of Yiddish Research, Winter 2003
  • Lemma Einhorn, David , Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1973, Vol. 6, Col. 532
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the edition Czernowitz 1925), p. 121. There the three Yiddish poems Herststimmung , Var Nacht and Yn a Lwune Nacht are printed in transcription.
  • Maria Kühn-Ludewig: Yiddish books from Berlin (1918-1936): titles, people, publishers , Kirsch, Nümbrecht, 2008, p. 128 ISBN 978-3-933586-56-8
  • Anne-Christin Saß: “When the Nazi criminals come home” - Dovid Eynhorn's reports on the National Socialist crimes in Forverts . In: Rebekka Denz: Yiddish sources. Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2008. ISBN 978-3-940793-41-6 . Pp. 68-95. Online partial view

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In his diary and other self-reports, Einhorn gave March 3, 1886 as the date of birth. In the Social Security Death Index instead, March 3, 1887 stated.
  2. ↑ Solomon Rosowsky: Lullaby for Worldcat. For Solomon Rosowsky see Wikipedia en: Solomon Rosowsky
personal data
SURNAME Unicorn, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eynhorn, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American writer who writes in Yiddish
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Karelitschy , Hrodsenskaja Woblasz
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1973
Place of death New York City