Meir Jelin
Meir Jelin ( Russian Меер Елин ; scientific transliteration Meer Elin ; Hebrew מאיר ילין; born 1910 in Srednik, Lithuania; died January 3, 2000 in Israel ) was a Soviet writer who wrote in Yiddish and Lithuanian , who moved to Israel in 1973 emigrated . The writer and leader and organizer of the partisan movement in the Kaunas Ghetto Chaim Jelin (d. 1944) was his younger brother.
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Meir Jelin was born in Srednik in Lithuania in 1910 and lived in Kaunas . His poems and stories have appeared in the Kaunas Yiddish press since the late 1920s, e.g. B. in Di Yiddish's voice . During the German occupation he was imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto (Kauen) and kept a ghetto chronicle. He was involved in the Jewish resistance movement and joined the partisans after fleeing . In the black book on the Holocaust and the crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union , his portrayal of The Fort of Death near Kaunas was included . The focus of his post-war work is on the Holocaust and resistance . Along with Dimitrius Gelpernas (1914-1998) he published in the Moscow Yiddish Emes-Verlag ( The Emes ) Partizaner fun Kaunas Geto [partisans in the ghetto of Kaunas] (1948). A Lithuanian translation was published by Mintis in 1969 in Vilnius (Wilna).
An extensive collection of his short stories and novellas was published in Moscow in 1972 by the Sowetski pissatel ("Soviet writers") publishing house.
The pianist Esther Jelin (born 1940) is his daughter.
Publications (selection)
- together with Dimitrius Gelpernas: Partizaner fun Kaunaser geto [partisans in the Kaunas ghetto]. Moscow: The Emes 1948 (Yiddish)
- (Lithuanian) Kauno getas ir jo kovotojai [The Kaunas ghetto and its fighters]. Vilnius : Mintis 1969
- Зэере бликн гобн зих багегнт / Seiere blikn gobn bagegnt [“Their eyes met”]. Moscow: Sowetski pissatel 1972 (collection of short stories and novellas)
See also
literature
- Wassili Grossman , Ilja Ehrenburg (ed.): The Black Book - The Genocide of the Soviet Jews. Rowohlt-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 . (Editor of the German edition: Arno Lustiger )
- Arno Lustiger : Rotbuch: Stalin and the Jews. Berlin 1998 (TB 2nd A. 2002)
- Vytautas Toleikis: "Repression, processing, remembrance. The Jewish heritage in Lithuania." In: osteuropa , Volume 58 / Issue 8–10 (August – October 2008), 455–464 (online at zeitschrift-osteuropa.de , translated from the Lithuanian by Cornelius Hell , Vienna)
Web links
- rujen.ru: Елин меер лейзерович
- worldcat.org
- "Operation Barbarossa": The attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 - the example of Lithuania: War and occupation crimes in the first weeks in the Lithuanian border area, in Kaunas and Wilna *
- Honor was the guiding principle: The participation of Lithuanian Jews in World War II ( Dov Levin * (1925–2016))
References and footnotes
- ↑ Section: Yelin, Meir (1910–2000) - yivoencyclopedia.org
- ↑ Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.): The black book: the genocide of the Soviet Jews. German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .
- ↑ German, pp. 582-604
- ↑ Russian Советский писатель / wiss. Sovetskij pisatel '- Sovetsky Pisatel (English)
- ^ Esther Yellin's website
- ↑ Terrible fates ... (Veit Feger, based on an article in the English-language edition of the Israeli newspaper " Haaretz ") - accessed on February 10, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jelin, Meir |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meir Eline; Mejer Jelin; Meir Yelin; Елин Меер Лейзерович; Meir Yellin; Mē'îr Yelîn; מאיר ילין |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet writer in Yiddish and Lithuanian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Srednik, Lithuania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 2000 |
| Place of death | Israel |