Gershon Swet

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Gershon Swet (born January 1, 1893 in Schpola , Russian Empire ; died July 19, 1968 in New York City ) was an Israeli journalist and music critic .

Life

Gershon Swet was a son of Mendel Swet and Sara Ostrovsky. Swet was a Russian soldier in World War I and studied in Kiev from 1917 . During the civil war he fled to Bessarabia . In 1921 he went to Berlin, where he worked as a correspondent for the Yiddish newspaper Moment from Warsaw , the Jewish newspaper Haaretz from Jerusalem and for newspapers from Latvia . Swet wrote on questions of the political and social identity of European Jews, he also wrote reviews of Berlin's musical life.

Swet married Judith Wahl in 1932. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in Germany, they emigrated to France and in 1935 to Palestine , where Swet worked in the Haaretz editorial team . In addition, he became editor of the Musica Hebraica magazine in 1938 and, from 1940, chairman of the Jerusalem Journalists' Association.

In 1947 Swet went to New York City as the Haaretz correspondent for the United Nations and worked in New York for the Jewish Agency's press office . He wrote for various Jewish newspapers and magazines such as Jedi'ot Acharonot in Tel Aviv, Novoye Russkoye Slovo , Aufbau and Hadoar , all in New York, and La Pensee Russe in Paris, and produced radio reports .

literature

  • Swet, Gershon , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 752

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SURNAME Swet, Gershon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli journalist and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Schpola
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1968
Place of death New York City