Lajzer Ajchenrand
Lajzer Ajchenrand (also: Lajser Ajchenrand ; born September 23, 1911 in Dęblin , Russian Empire ; died September 12, 1985 in Küsnacht ZH ) was a Polish Yiddish poet .
Life
He was the son of a religion teacher and lived in Paris from 1937 , where he also served temporarily in the French army. He earned his living by making bespoke clothing.
In 1940, under the Vichy regime , he was interned. After fleeing to Switzerland in 1942, he was interned again. His mother and sister were killed in the Majdanek concentration camp . After 1945 he lived with his future wife in Küsnacht and also spent five years in Israel .
Switzerland denied him citizenship for formal reasons.
He wrote only Yiddish poetry. In 1976 his work was awarded the Itzik Manger Prize, one of the most important Israeli literary prizes.
Works (selection)
- Do not you hear. Yiddish poems. German translation by Walter Lesch. Zurich 1947.
- Dos Broit fun Tsar. 1964.
- Landscape fun goirl. 1979.
- I call from below. Lider and Ssonetn . Poems in Yiddish and German. Transferred by Hubert Witt. Ammann, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-250-10501-5 .
- Des Profondeurs de L'Abime. Poemes and Sonnets. 1953.
literature
- Egon Ammann , Eugen Faes (ed.): Literature from Switzerland: Texts and materials. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main / Zurich 1978, pp. 159–161.
- Beatrice Eichmann-Leutenegger: Appointments with men. Pendo-Verlag, Zurich 1994.
- Karin Huser: Ajchenrand, Lajzer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Publications by and about Lajzer Ajchenrand in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Estate at the Archives for Contemporary History (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ajchenrand, Lajzer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ajchenrand, Lajser |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yiddish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dęblin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1985 |
| Place of death | Küsnacht ZH |