Elchanan Zeitlin

Elchanan Zeitlin (born March 15, 1902 in Rahatschou , Russian Empire ; died December 15, 1941 in Warsaw ) was a Polish journalist and writer.

Life

Elchanan Zeitlin was a son of the writer Hillel Zeitlin and Esther Kunin, a brother was the writer Aaron Zeitlin (1898–1973). In 1920/21 he and his brother Aaron were in Palestine . He began studying medicine in Warsaw, which he broke off. At times he was a member of the Folk Party . From 1926 Zeitlin was a journalist and co-editor of the Yiddish daily newspaper Undzer ekspres . He also wrote for the magazines Globus and Literarishe bleter . In 1931 he published a small volume of poetry under the title A bikhele lider . He published the first volume of a literary autobiography in 1937, the manuscript for the second volume was lost after the outbreak of the war.

In 1939, after the conquest of Poland, Zeitlin fled to Lemberg , which had been added to the Soviet Union. When this too was conquered by the Germans in 1941, he returned to Warsaw and died of the conditions of detention in the Warsaw ghetto . His father also died in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, while his brother managed to emigrate to the USA.

Grave in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw

Works (selection)

• Dos cijonisze Erec Jisroel in light fun perzenłeche observations . 1922
• A bikhele lider . Poetry. Warsaw, 1931
• In a literarisher shtub . Autobiography. 1937
• Bukh un bine . Essays on the Theater. 1939

literature

• Zivia Lubetkin : Zagłada i powstanie . Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza, 1999 ISBN 83-05130-41-X .
• Mikhail Krutikov, Shachar Pinsker: Zeitlin Family , in YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (en)

Web links

• Literature by and about Elchanan Zeitlin in the bibliographic database WorldCat