Isaac Raboy

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Isaac Raboy (born November 1882 in Sawalia on the territory of the former Congress Poland , † 1944 ; also Eisik Raboi , Isaac Raboy ) one was Yiddish -American novelist belonging to the group Di boy is expected and especially with his story The Jewish Cowboy remembered stayed.

Life

Born in Sawalia, he moved with his family to Rishkani in Bessarabia , where he learned about Russian literature and began to write in Russian , Hebrew and Yiddish. In 1904 he emigrated to the USA , became a follower of David Ignatoff, and there he met David Pinski . Raboy was able to publish a large number of his articles in the latter's magazine Der Arbeiter .

Isaak Raboy was enthusiastic about rural life and agriculture, attended an agricultural school from 1908 to 1910 and soon got a job as a farmer in North Dakota , where he spent several years. In 1913 he returned to New York City disappointed , tried his hand at business and eventually had to work in a factory.

The whole time he was also active in literature. His first novel from Jewish life in the vastness of American nature ( Mr. Goldenberg ) was a great success, as were the novels he wrote in the following decade.

Some of his stories also appeared in the future and in other magazines, and he also emerged as the author of several dramas. In 1928 he became a permanent employee of freedom and hammer .

Isaak Raboy expanded the field of Yiddish literature to include the type of Jewish farm laborer, bringing into it the motif of love of the countryside and freedom, of the longing for nature, especially the quiet of the prairie.

His most famous novel is the 1942 published work Der Yidischer cowboy . Raboy describes - against an autobiographical background - the life of the Jewish servant Isaac on a farm in North Dakota, who believes that he is accepted by his Christian environment and cannot explain why he nevertheless feels himself an outsider. Finally, he is insulted as a Jew and returns to the east of America disappointed.

Works (selection)

Date of origin, publication known
  • The pass fun'm jam , 1917 (novel)
  • Dus wilde land , 1919 (novel)
  • Bessarab Yiden , 1922 (novel)
  • Stingeldruht , 1925 (drama)
  • Gekimen a jid kin [= to] america , 1926 (novel)
  • Yiddish manners , 1926 (drama)
  • The Yiddish cowboy , 1942 (novel)
Without year or not determined
  • Own earth (novel)
  • Mr. Goldenberg (novel)
Total expenditure
  • Collected works in three volumes, New York 1919–1920

Literature / sources

  • N. Meisel, in: Bücherwelt , 1913.
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. V, Orient Printing House, Chernivtsi 1931.
  • Salman Reisen : Lekßikon fun der Yidischer literature un press. 1926 ff.
  • Thirteen American scribes. 1928.
  • Samuel Niger in the tug on November 25, 1928.
  • Günter Stemberger : History of Jewish Literature. 1977.
  • Irving Howe, Kenneth Libo: How We Lived. A Documentary History of Immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930. Richard Marek, NY 1979.
  • Amelia Glaser, David Weintraub (Eds.): Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
  • Lloyd Ultan, Barbara Unger: Bronx Accent. A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Raboy, Isaac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yiddish writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Sawalia, Congress Poland
DATE OF DEATH 1944