Matthias Mieses

Matthias Mieses (* 1885 in Przemyśl , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † 1945 on the march to the Gleiwitz concentration camp ), also in Polish: Mateusz; Hebrew: Matisyahu Mizes or Mizish, was a Polish philologist, comparative cultural historian, and journalist.

He came from a family of Jewish enlighteners ( Hebrew Maskilim ). There was a shtetl in Przemyśl . He studied culture and linguistics and published several works on Yiddish , the Jewish dialects, written languages ​​and Polish history .

His speech at the Conference for the Yiddish Language , also known as the Chernivtsi Conference, where he gave a defensive speech in favor of Yiddish, which received particular attention from Jizchok Leib Perez , became famous . He published his works in several languages.

Publications

• Ha-Polanim veha-Yehudim (The Poles and the Jews; 1905);
• Ha-'Amim ha-'atikim ve-Yisra'el (The ancient nations and Israel; 1909);
• The origin of the Jewish dialects. R. Löwit, Vienna 1915, Hamburg; Helmut Buske, 1979, reprint d. Edition Vienna 1915, ISBN 3-87118-392-X
• Teutons and Jews, - Vienna: R. Löwit, 1917
• The laws of the history of writing, Vienna: Braumüller, 1919
• On the race question, Vienna: Braumüller, 1919
• The origin of hatred of Jews. Berlin: B. Harz, 1923
• The Yiddish Language: A Historical Grammar of the Idiom of the Integral Jews of Eastern and Central Europe. B. Harz, Berlin 1924 ( digitized version )
• Psychological rudiments, Berlin: B. Harz, 1928
• Żydzi jako rolnicy w dawnej Polsce (Jews as Farmers in Polish History; 1938).
• Polacy-chrześcijanie pochodzenia żydowskiego (Christian Poles of Jewish origin). 2 volumes, with 315 biographies, 1938

literature

• Peter Freimark:  Lousy, Matthias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 483 ( digitized version ).
• R. Pytel:  Bad Mathias. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 272.
• Me'ir Bosak, “Ḥodshe ḥayav ha-aḥaronim shel Matityahu Mizes,” Davar (Tel Aviv) (September 25, 1950): 6.
• Getzel Kressel, “Matisyahu Mizes un di polemik vegn yidish,” Di goldene keyt 28 (1957): 143–163.
• Zalman Reisen (Rejzen), “Mizes (Mizish) Matisyahu,” in Leksikon fun der yidisher literature, prese, un filologye, vol. 2, cols. 375-379 (Vilna, 1927).

Web links

• Biography (YIVO, English)