Hersch Leib Gottlieb

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Hersch Leib Gottlieb (stage name: Hersh Leib Sigheter , born 1829, Királyhelmec , Kingdom of Hungary ; died on May 24, 1930 in Máramarossziget ) was a Jewish magazine publisher , journalist and writer .

Life

Gottlieb was the son of the famous Badchans ( bailiff ) Joseph (Yechiel Michal) Gottlieb. His grandfather worked at the court of Moshe Teitelbaum , the " miracle rabbi " of Sátoraljaújhely . As a yeshiva student, Hersch Leib's career as a rabbi was mapped out. However, he followed in his father's footsteps at a young age and became a celebrated Badchen in Eastern Europe. He also became famous for his numerous popular pieces for Purim plays , Hanukkah songs and poems, which he wrote and set to music in Yiddish.

In 1878 he published HaSchemesch , the first Hebrew-language weekly newspaper in Austria-Hungary . In 1887 Gottlieb had to leave Sziget because of personal hostility from the Hasidic chief rabbi Chananja Jom Tow Lipa Teitelbaum . He then published in Kolomea , Galicia , where the weekly HaCharschu appeared from 1888 and the Jewish People's Newspaper from 1891 . Back in Sziget, he resumed publication of the latter in 1893. In 1896 the Hebrew monthly newspaper Die Truth appeared .

First edition of the weekly HaSchemesch (The Sun) on October 9, 1878 in Máramarossziget.

From 1902 he published Zion , the first Zionist magazine supported by Theodor Herzl , from 1908 the bilingual (Yiddish-Hungarian) Ahavat Cion - together with Illés Blank - the official Zionist publication of the counties of Máramaros, Ugocsa and Szatmár- Bereg. There is evidence that he gave Zionist lectures in Nadworna in 1899 and 1901 .

Gottlieb translated works by Schiller and Goethe, among others, into Hebrew.

In 1933 a volume of collected poems ("Lider fun mayn lebn") was published posthumously. The entire estate of Gottlieb was acquired by Salman Reisen from YIVO , who intended to publish it in three volumes in 1940. Gottlieb's estate has been lost since the Soviet secret service was abducted by the Soviet secret service in Vilna at the end of 1939.

First edition of the weekly HaCharschu (The Sun) on November 9, 1888 in Stanislau (today Stanislawow, Ukraine)

Writings and magazines

  • HaSchemesch , also as Ha-Harsah [Hebrew], from 1878 to 1900.
  • The truth. Monthly for entertainment and instruction , by Hirsch Loeb Gottlieb. M.-Sziget. 1896 (only two issues)
  • Ahawat Cion / Zion [Yiddish], from 1902 to approx. 1918
  • Hersh Leib Gotlieb: Lider fun mayn lebn: Lider, humoreskn, ertseylungen (= Ale ṿerḳ fun Hersh Leyb Goṭlib. Volume 1). Seini, Iacob Wieder, 1933. v – vii.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Encyclopaedia Judaica , Gottlieb was born in 1829 and died in 1930.
  2. ↑ Keyword Nadworna In: Die Welt (Zionism) . Link , link .
  3. ↑ a b c Gottlieb, Hirsch Leib. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica. 1971, Volume 7, Col. 824 f.
  4. ^ Leo Wiener: The history of Yiddish literature in the nineteenth century . John C. Nimmo, London 1899, p. 360 ( The Truth.  - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Gottlieb, Hersch Leib
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sigheter, Hersh Leib; Gottlieb, Hirsch Loeb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian magazine editor, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1829 or 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Sziget
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1930
Place of death Máramarossziget