Maurycy Szymel

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Maurycy Szymel , also: Mosheh (born 1903 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; died 1942 in Lemberg) was a Polish writer, publicist and translator into Yiddish and Polish .

Life

Maurycy Szymel grew up in a Yiddish-speaking working-class family in Lemberg, where he attended high school. Szymel moved to Warsaw , where he wrote in Yiddish and Polish for the Jewish press. His first poem appeared in the children's newspaper Chwila in 1925 . From 1933 to 1935 he and Roman Brandstaetter published several contradicting articles on Polish-Jewish literature and identity in the magazine Opinia . He translated works by Zusman Segałowicz and Lejb Małach from Yiddish into Polish .

During the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he returned to Lemberg, which was now occupied by the Soviets . After the German occupation of Lviv , he worked in the administration of the Judenrat in the Lviv ghetto, which was ordered by the Germans . Szymel died of the conditions in the Lemberg-Janowska Forced Labor Camp .

Works (selection)

Yiddish
  • Me iz umetik . 1936
  • Selected poems in the anthology of Binem Heller : Dos lid iz geblibn: lider fun Yidishe dikhṭer in Poyln, umumene b-es̀ der Hiṭlerisher oḳupatsye: anṭologye . Farlag "Yidish-Bukh", 1951
  • Ima ba-afelah: Ve-shirm aḥerim. Matka w mroku i inne wiersze . Tel Aviv, 1995
Polish
  • Powrót do domu . 1931
  • Skrzypce przedmieścia . 1932

literature

  • Eugenia Prokop-Janiec: Szymel, Maurycy , in: Gershon David Hundert (Ed.): The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . Translated from Polish by Christina Manetti. Yale University Press, New Haven 2008 p. 1826
  • Eugenia Prokop-Janiec: Polish-Jewish Literature in the Interwar Years . Abe Shenitzer in Romanian. Syracuse, NY, 2003
  • Eugenia Prokop-Janiec: Polish-Jewish Literature. Between Western and Eastern European tradition , in: Caspar Battegay, Barbara Breysach (Ed.): Jewish literature as European literature: Europeanity and Jewish identity 1860 - 1930 . Munich: Ed. Text + review, 2008
  • Katrin Steffen: Jewish polity? : Ethnicity and nation in the mirror of the Polish-language Jewish press 1918-1939 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2004. Zugl .: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Eugenia Prokop-Janiec: Maurycy Szymel , at YIVO .
  2. ↑ Katrin Steffen: Jewish polity? 2004, p. 195 ff.
  3. ↑ Zusman Segałowicz ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Virtual Shtetl @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sztetl.org.pl
personal data
SURNAME Szymel, Maurycy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szymel, Mosheh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer, publicist and translator in Yiddish and Polish
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Lviv