Meir Marcell Faerber

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Meir Marcell Faerber (born April 29, 1908 in Mährisch Ostrau , Austria-Hungary ; died August 19, 1993 in Tel Aviv ) was an Austrian-Israeli writer.

Life

Meir Marcell Faerber was the son of the rabbi and publisher Rubin Faerber (1869–1955) and Olga Rosenfeld (1884–1969). He had two siblings. Faerber was married to Ilona Tutelman and they had two children.

Faerber attended high school in Moravian Ostrau and then the commercial college in Brno . He worked in his father's publishing house.

Faerber was a Zionist and emigrated to Palestine in 1934. He founded the German-language daily Orient-Express there in 1935, which was published in Beirut , but was discontinued after two months because the Hebrew Association of Journalists refused to participate. He became a member of the editorial board of the German-language Israel-Nachrichten , also worked for Hebrew-language newspapers and as a correspondent for European newspapers. Faerber became a member of the Hagana , which organized the illegal immigration of Jews into the British-controlled League of Nations mandate for Palestine . In 1956 he founded the Austrian-Israeli Society . In 1975 he was co-founder and chairman of the Association of German-Language Writers in Israel . He was a member of the PEN

In 1971 Faerber received the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and in 1983 the German Federal Cross of Merit .

Faerber wrote primarily in German, he also translated from Hebrew. He composed the Hebrew children's book Dudaim for his children .

Fonts (selection)

  • Lola. Novella . Radolfzell, 1926
  • Shot while trying to escape. Drama . Antwerp, 1933 [first performance Regensburg 1987]
  • Meir Reuben: Warning! Attention! Tel-Aviv broadcasts Zionism: Satires . Mor. Ostrava: Ed. Haivri, 1936
  • Meir Reuben: My Tel-Aviv: Satires . 1940
  • Dr. Emil Margulies: a life struggle for truth and law . Tel-Aviv: Atasa Books Publisher, 1949
  • Dudaim . [Hebrew Children's Book]. Poems. Illustrations by M. Gur-Arieh. Tel Aviv, 1951
  • The Parliament of Israel . Tel Aviv: Atasa, 1958
  • Fairy tales and legends from Israel . Düsseldorf: Verlag der Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland, 1960
  • ... who lead Israel . Tel Aviv: Olamenu, 1971
  • Wrestling souls. Narratives . Tel Aviv: Atasa, 1974
  • (Ed.): Voices from Israel. An anthology of German-language literature in Israel . Gerlingen: bleacher, 1979
  • Words: poems, reflection, confession, contemplation . Tel Aviv: Atasa, 1980
  • Samuel S. Cahana: sagas and legends from Israel . Translation from the Hebrew Meir M. Faerber. Gerlingen: Bleicher, 1980
  • The wandering messenger . Narrative. Bovenden: Graphikum Mock, 1981
  • Burning jealousy . 20 stories. Gerlingen: Bleicher, 1983
  • Three times three links in a chain . Novel. Gerlingen: Bleicher, 1985
  • Serious and cheerful. Poems, sentences, episodes, bizarre things . Berlin: Stoedtner, 1986
  • (Ed.): On the way. An anthology of German-language literature in Israel . Gerlingen: Bleicher, 1989
  • Israel in tanka verses . Göttingen: Graphikum, 1987
  • Menagerie: Smirk poems . Illustrations by Rita Rössler-Buckel. Gerlingen: Bleicher, 1990
  • From Abraham to Solomon. The Bible in bank verse . Berlin: Ed. Orient, 1991
  • For unknown reasons: drama . Klagenfurt: Mnemosyne, 1991
  • (Ed.): Austrian Jews: historical Streiflichter . Afterword by Armin A. Wallas. Gerlingen: Bleicher, 1993

literature

  • Faerber, Meir Marcell. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 463-469.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 277f.
  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature , Austrian library in exile. Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , short biography p. 119
  • Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , pp. 132f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publishing house Dr. R. (ubin) Faerber, Mährisch-Ostrau / Moravská Ostrava , at Bohemian publishers
  2. ↑ on Emil Margulies see Margulies, Emil , at Yivo
  3. ^ Meir Faerber (* 1908): Ernstes und Heiteres . Poems: sentences, episodes, bizarre things. Stoedtner, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-920907-33-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Faerber, Meir Marcell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faerber, Meir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Ostrava
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1993
Place of death Tel Aviv