David Jakowlewitsch Aizman
David Jakowlewitsch Aizman ( Давид Яковлевич Айзман , David Jakovlevič Ajzman; born March 26, 1869 in Nikolajew , Cherson Governorate ; † September 26, 1922 in Detskoye Selo ) was a Russian-Jewish writer and playwright.
Aizman went to Paris in 1896 to study painting, and in 1898 he and his wife, a physicist, moved to the Haute-Marne department. In France he made his debut as a writer with articles in the magazine Russkoje bogatstvo . His debut novels Na chuzhbine (1902) and Zemliaki (1903) also appeared in France . In 1902 he returned to Russia. During the first two decades of the 20th century, his novels and short stories appeared in leading literary magazines here, and his plays were performed in major theaters. An eight-volume edition was published between 1911 and 1918. Aizman was considered an important Russian-Jewish author of the time, and Alexander Amfiteatrov compared him to Dostoevsky and Garshin .
Because of his offensive engagement with Russian and Ukrainian anti-Semitism, his works were inconvenient after the October Revolution. His prose has not been published since the early 1930s and has been forgotten, at best he was still known as the author of the drama Ternovyi kust (1907). Even abroad, his work received little attention and was not translated. In 1976 the American Leonard Lehrman composed the opera Sima based on the short novel Cheta Krasovitskikh .
Works
- Na chuzhbine (1902)
- Zemliaki (1903)
- Ledokhod (1905)
- Utro Anchla (1906)
- Ternovyi kust (1907)
- Krovavyi razliv (1908)
literature
- Glenda Abramson: Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-134-42865-6 , p. 11 ( excerpt from Google Books )
- Maxim Shrayer: An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature. 1801-1953 . ME Sharpe, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7656-2168-9 , pp. 113 f. ( Excerpt from Google Books )
Web links
- Maxim D. Shrayer: Aizman, David Iakovlevich in: The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
- David Yakovlevich Aizman in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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| SURNAME | Aizman, David Jakowlewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Айзман, Давид Яковлевич (Russian); Ajzman, David Jakovlevič (scientific transcription); Aizman, David Iakovlevich (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Jewish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mykolaiv |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1922 |
| Place of death | Pushkin (city) |