Levin Kipnis
Levin Kipnis ( Ukrainian Левін Кіпніс , Hebrew לֶוִין קִיפְּנִיס, born August 17, 1894 in Uzhomyr in the Volhynian governorate in the Russian Empire ; died June 20, 1990 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli children's author .
Life
Levin Kipnis grew up as the son of a chasan in a large family in the Pale of Settlement of the Jews in the Russian Empire. He attended the cheder and was trained as a sofer in Zhytomyr and Warsaw . In 1910 his first children's story was published. In 1913 he emigrated to Ottoman Palestine and attended the Bezalel arts and crafts school founded by Boris Schatz in Jerusalem . He founded his first children's book publisher in Jaffa . During the First World War, the Ottoman government forced him to do agricultural work. He then worked at Bezalel in the musical training of kindergarten teachers and published teaching materials. In 1922 he stayed in Berlin and wrote three Yiddish children's books there, including an alphabet, which were produced in Berlin's Yiddish publishers for the Eastern European market. From 1923 until 1956 he taught at the Levinsky Teacher Training College in Tel Aviv, founded in 1912 by Chibbat Zion , named after the writer and activist Elhanan Levinsky (1857-1911) and who chose the Hebrew language . In 1928 he was involved in founding a children's theater which he directed for 25 years.
Kipnis wrote 800 stories and 600 poems, mostly in Hebrew, some of which were also set to music. In 1961 he published a selection from his books written in Yiddish. He received the Lamdan Prize in 1976 and the Israel Prize for Children's Literature in 1978 .
Works (selection)
- Alef Bet . Illustrations by Ze'ev Raban . Berlin: Verlag HaSefer, SD Saltzmann., 1923 [Yiddish]
literature
- Sol Liptzin : A history of Yiddish literature . Middle Village, NY: David, 1985
- Kipnis, Levin , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 10, Sp. 1038
Web links
- Literature by and about Lewîn Qîpnîs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Levin Kipnis in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Levin Kipnis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kipnis, Lewin , directory of sound recordings of his songs
- Information on Levin Kipnis in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Levin Kipnis , at Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (ITHL)
- Levin Kipnis, Author, 96 , obituary, New York Times , June 23, 1990
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kipnis, Levin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | קיפניס, לוין; Kipnis, Lewin; Qipnis, Lewin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli children's author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uzhomyr , Volyn Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1990 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |