Ignaz Ježower

Ignaz Ježower (born June 17, 1878 in Rzeszów , Poland, † January 13, 1942 in Riga ) was a Polish-German cultural historian, writer and translator in Berlin . He is said to have been friends with George Grosz , Else Lasker-Schüler , Alfred Döblin , Kurt Schwitters and other artists. Together with Franz Hessel he translated and edited the memoirs “ Histoire de ma vie ” by Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798). His most important work is a comprehensive anthology of dreams, The Book of Dreams .

He was deported from Berlin to Riga on January 13, 1942 with Transport 8, Zug Da 44 , and murdered there .

Works

• (Ed.): Venetian nights and dreams. Seals by Byron / Dehmel / Geibel / Goethe / Greif / Hesse / Heyse / Hofmannsthal / CF Meyer / Nietzsche / Platen / Salus / Schack / Schaukal / Schönaich-Carolath / Strachwitz u. a. Berlin / Leipzig (B. Behrs Verlag) undated (around 1910). 2nd ed. 183 p. Marbled Pbd. The first edition was published under the title 'Der poetic Cicerone 1' (also contains poems by Friedrich Adler, Andre Chenier, Felix Dahn, Benno Geiger, Robert Hamerling, Hermann Lingg, Alfred Meissner, Richard Monckton Milnes, Thomas Moore, Alfred Musset , Anton Renk, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lorenzo Stecchetti, Heinrich Stieglitz, Theodor Suse, Jaroslav Vrchlicky and Venetian folk songs. With an introduction by the publisher)
• The Liberation of Humanity: Ideas of Freedom Past and Present. With the participation of Paul Adler , Adolf Behne , Eduard Bernstein , Leo Bloch , A. Conrady, Paul Darmstädter , Alfred Döblin , Max Hochdorf , Paul Kampffmeyer , E. Lederer , Friedrich Muckle , Rich. Müller , Paul Olberg , Albert Pohlmeyer , AE Rutra , Alexander Stein , Heinrich Ströbel , Veit Valentin edited by Ignaz Ježower. With numerous full-page illustrations, in the text and on plates, etc. av: F. Hodler; Walter Crane; A. Rethel; Daumier; E. Barlach; Munch; H. Thoma; Th. Th. Heine; K. Kollwitz. Berlin [u. a.]: Bong, 1921
• Jezower, Ignaz: The slide. The Adventurer's Book. With a few tablets. Decor by George Grosz. Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Stuttgart: Bong (1922)
• Giacomo Casanova: Memoirs, translated and edited by Franz Hessel u. Ignaz Jezower. 10 volumes. Berlin, E. Rowohlt, undated (1924–1925). (First edition of Casanova's memoirs).
• The book of dreams. Berlin: Rowohlt, 1928 (The dreams of the patriarchs, the people of antiquity, the Chinese, the people of the Middle Ages, the Reformation, Romanticism, World War I, intellectual achievements in dreams, experimentally excited dream images, dr. Of the blind, the primitive, of the children, Tr. of the animals. Register of the dreaming persons and the persons who appeared in the Tr., list of sources - With reports (partly first prints) of the dreams of Alexander the Great, Oskar Baum, W. Benjamin, S. Freud, Fr. Hebbel , Jean Paul, A. Strindberg and many others - A “dream anthology” beginning in the Greco-Roman area, about Mohammedans, Goethe and his circle, Hebbel, Heine, Andersen, Strindberg, Richard Dehmel, Franziska zu Reventlow, Wieland Herzfelde, Schopenhauer, Sigmund Freud etc., next to them there are chapters such as the intellectual achievements in dreams, the occult abilities in dreams and others accessible through a person and subject index.)
• Jezower, Ignaz (ed.): Letters to the youth from four centuries. Selection and cultural-historical introductions by Ignaz Jezower. Berlin: German Book Association, 1932

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1. ↑ https://www.kj-skrodzki.de/Dokumente/Text_048g.htm#jezo
2. ↑ https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=de&itemId=4108125

literature

• George Grosz: A small yes and a big no. His life told by himself. Reinbek near Hamburg 1986, first in 1955

Web links

Wikisource: Ignaz Ježower  - sources and full texts

• George Grosz on Ignaz Ježower
• Karl Jürgen Skrodzki: Friendship with Else Lasker-Schüler. Dedications, portraits, letters. A list of sources for the poet's works and letters
• About the book of dreams