Gerschon Schoffmann

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Gerschon Schoffmann

Gerschon Schoffmann , also Gershon Shofman or Shufman, Hebrew גרשון שופמן, (born February 28, 1880 in Orsha , Russian Empire ; died June 13, 1972 in Gedera , Israel ), was a Russian-Austrian-Israeli author .

Life

Gerschon Schoffmann grew up in a religious and traditional Jewish environment in what is now Belarus , about 200 kilometers east of Minsk . When he was almost 20 years old, he left his family and went to Warsaw , one of the centers of Hebrew literature at the time, where he soon made a name for himself as an author who wrote in Hebrew. From 1902 he did his military service in the Tsarist army in Homel , where he was an eyewitness to a pogrom in 1903 . In 1904, after deserting the Russian army at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War , he fled to Lemberg in Austria-Hungary .

From 1913 he lived in Vienna. In 1921 he married in Baden near Vienna , the Lower Austrian Anna Plank and lived with her from 1921 to 1938 in Wetzelsdorf , then a separate municipality, now a district on the western edge of Graz . In 1928 Anna converted from Catholicism to Judaism with the children Peter and Gertrude. During his 34-year stay in Austria he was stateless throughout . In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine with his wife and two children . He died in Israel in 1972, where he found great literary recognition.

Schoffmann always wrote in Hebrew . In 1946 he was awarded the Bialik Prize of the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa excellent. In 1956 he was awarded the Israel Prize , the country's highest honor, for his work .

A selection of Schoffmann's works was first published in German in 2017. The volume contains stories that Schoffmann wrote from 1913 to 1938 in Austria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerald Lamprecht: Gerschon Schoffmann - a Hebrew author in Styria . In: Historischer Verein für Steiermark (Hrsg.): Blätter für Heimatkunde . 92nd year, issue 1/2. Graz 2018, p. 42-52 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Leitner: Down and out in Vienna and Wetzelsdorf , in: Falter , Vienna, No. 11/2017, supplement books spring 2017 , p. 15

Works

  • Not forever. Selected stories. Translation from Hebrew by Ruth Achlama , edited by Gerald Lamprecht. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-85420-979-9 , 350 pp.

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personal data
SURNAME Schoffmann, Gerschon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shofman, Gershon; שופמן, גרשון
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish author
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Orsha
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1972
Place of death Gedera