Jiří Mordechai Langer
Jiří Mordechai Langer (also in the German form of the name Georg Mordechai Langer ; born March 19, 1894 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; † March 12, 1943 in Tel Aviv , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ) was a Jewish writer who spoke in German, Czech and Hebrew wrote.
Jiří Mordechai Langer was the brother of František Langer .
Major works
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The eroticism of the Kabbalah. Prague: Flesch, 1923
- Love mysticism of the Kabbalah . Munich-Planegg: OW Barth, 1956 (censored)
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Devět bran. 1937
- Nine goals. The Secret of the Hasidim , 1938; first complete German translation
- The nine gates. Secrets of the Hasidim. from the Czech by Kristina Kallert. Arco Verlag, Wuppertal / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-938375-40-2
literature
- Walter Kosglich: The nomad poet: Jiří Mordechai Langer, a Czech-Jewish author. Böhlau, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20393-1 .
- Andreas B. Kilcher : Literature and Kabbalah. Jiří Langer and the importance of storytelling in Hasidism. In: Jiří Mordechai Langer: The nine gates. Secrets of the Hasidim . From the Czech a. with an afterword by Kristina Kallert, ed. by Andreas B. Kilcher. Arco Verlag, Wuppertal / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-938375-40-2 , pp. 315–363.
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Jiří Mordechai Langer in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Jiří Mordechai Langer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langer, Jiří Mordechai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Langer, Georg Mordechai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1943 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |