Eliezer Steinbarg

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Elieser Steinbarg , אליעזער שטײנבֿאַרג (also Eliezer Steinbarg or Steinberg ; born May 18, 1880 in Lipcany , Russian Empire ; † March 27, 1932 in Chernivtsi , Romania ), was a Jewish writer who wrote in Yiddish .

Life

In Lipcany Steinbarg was a teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew and director of the Hebrew and Yiddish schools. In 1919 Steinbarg moved from Lipcany to Chernivtsi. In 1921 he published a Hebrew and in 1922 a Yiddish children's primer in Bucharest in Chernivtsi. He organized a Yiddish children's theater, in whose choir the later lyrical tenor Joseph Schmidt also took part. In a village in the Carpathian Mountains he founded a holiday colony where he sang with the children and told them fairy tales and legends. In 1925 he planned to emigrate to Palestine , but did not do so, but moved to Brazil in 1928 to improve his economic situation. He directed the Scholem Alejchem School in Rio de Janeiro and returned to Romania in 1930. In 1932 he died in Chernivtsi after an appendix operation and was buried in the Jewish cemetery there. Art, culture and the Yiddish language played an important role in the life of the city, of which 47% of the population was Jewish in 1930. This explains why thousands of mourners appeared at Steinbarg's funeral.

Work and aftermath

The poet Rose Ausländer (1901–1988) published many of his texts in Chernivtsi newspapers between 1931 and 1933. Fables were published posthumously in 1932, 1935 and 1936, some of which were illustrated by his friend Arthur Kolnik . This designed stone barg tombstone. This was followed by printing in Bucharest 1934/35, Buenos Aires 1949 and Tel Aviv 1969 and 1980. Steinbarg has received attention to this day, for example in 1999 through an exhibition in the University Library of Tübingen or a reading in Hanover in 2010.

In 1939 the children's library “E. Steinbarg ”of the Scholem Alejchem School in Rio de Janeiro. In 1972 a memorial exhibition was held in Jerusalem. Steinbarg's literary estate was handed over by the heirs to the Jerusalem Jewish National Library . In Chernivtsi the Elieser-Steinbarg-Kulturgesellschaft and a street are named after him. Since 1991 a plaque has been pointing to his house. The Yiddish writer Josef Burg recalled in 1998:

“I wrote a poem in Yiddish and showed it to Steinbarg. He said to be a Yiddish poet, and to be a poet in general, to be a writer, is a very difficult thing, but to be a decent person is very easy. I wish you that in your life. How far I have become a decent person in my life, I do not know, but that I have become a poet, a writer, I owe that in the first place to Elieser Steinbarg. "

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  1. ↑ Hermannstädter Zeitung, Sibiu from August 6, 2010
  2. ↑ Markus Winkler: Chernivtsi Judaism: a myth on the edge of Europe? in east-west. European perspectives. Issue 3/2008
  3. ↑ Helmut Braun: Chernivtsi: the history of a submerged cultural metropolis , Ch. Links, 2006, ISBN 9783861533740 . Many pictures of the funeral in the catalog My dear Roisele!
  4. ↑ Exhibition in other places and in other years. Catalog see My dear Roisele!
  5. ^ Josef Burg, Michael Martens: Irrfahrten Ein Ostjüdisches Leben. Hans Boldt, Winsen 2000, ISBN 9783928788359
  6. ↑ exhibition catalog. The title comes from a letter from Kolnik to foreigners. Other authors Rose Ausländer , Alfred Margul-Sperber , Alfred Kittner , Edith Silbermann, Helios Hecht and others. Other ISBNs: ISBN 3932670051 ISBN 3931826074
personal data
SURNAME Steinbarg, Eliezer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yiddish-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Lipcany
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1932
Place of death Chernivtsi