Milgroim

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Milgroim issue 3 1923

Milgroim. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Literatur ( Milgroim: tzeiṭšrifṭ far kunsṭ un liṭeraṭur ) was a Yiddish cultural magazine that was published between 1922 and 1924 in Berlin by Rimon.

Milgroim was founded by Mark Wischnitzer and Rachel Wischnitzer . David Bergelson and The Nister were co-editors of the first issue . At the same time, the same publisher published the Hebrew-language magazine Rimon in a similar format. Franziska Baruch designed the typography of the magazine cover for both issues. Six issues were published, after which the publication was discontinued. The table of contents of the magazine was in Yiddish and in English, each article had a short English summary. The advertisements for books were also in Russian or Hebrew.

The topics presented were taken from European art history and contemporary art, so there were essays on Leonardo da Vinci , Paul Cezanne and Max Liebermann as well as on Islamic art. Philosophical contributions dealt with Laotse , Buddha , Hippolyte Taine , Hasidism and the current Oswald Spengler . The tote Gabriel by Arthur Schnitzler , excerpts from Arno Holz ' Phantasus and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Ballad of Outer Life were printed in Yiddish translation . The magazine provided space for contemporary Yiddish poets David Bergelson , David Hofstein , Moische Kulbak , Leib Kwitko , Der Nister and Joseph Opatoshu .

The magazine did not represent any direction, it was a broad forum for various currents, so it had no programmatic appeal in the first issue, its secret program was side by side. In the first issue of Milgroim described David Hofstein , who had also emigrated from the Soviet Union, with the song of my indifference what his sense of disorientation in the same issue also Bergelson with the Expressionist text The accomplished departure brought (The Happening that oifbroch) expressed. In the dispute about the direction of the magazine, Nister and Bergelson withdrew after the first issue, while Rachel Wischnitzer propagated an art based on religion in the fourth issue.

In addition to Milgroim, the Yiddish magazine Der Onheyb (The Beginning), edited by David Einhorn , Shemaryahu Gorelik and Max Weinreich , was founded in Berlin. Kalman Singman brought out a Yiddish Kunstring Almanac in Berlin . The Yiddish Warsaw journal Albatros published a number in Berlin in 1923. In addition, the Yiddish-speaking organizations Poale Zion in Unzer Bavichtung , the General Jewish Workers' Union in Das Fraye Vort and the Association of Eastern Jews in Der Mizrekh Yid also offered space for features and art contributions. The alleged plan to establish a new center of Yiddish culture in Berlin was sharply criticized from the centers of Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe. In fact, the publishers and most of the Yiddish authors returned to the countries of their readers in Vilnius, Warsaw, Moscow, Kiev and Odessa as early as the 1920s, and the Berlin cultural magazines were discontinued.

literature

  • Delphine Bechtel: Milgroym, a Yiddish magazine of arts and letters, is founded in Berlin by Mark Wischnitzer , in: Sander L. Gilman , Jack Zipes (Hrsg.): Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture 1096 - 1996 . New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997, pp. 420-426
  • Naomi Brenner: Milgroym, Rimon and Interwar Jewish Bilingualism . In: Journal of Jewish Identities, January 2014, pp. 23–48
  • Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig: "Rimon-Milgroim": historical evaluation of a cultural phenomenon . In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, ISSN  0029-9669 , Vol. 113 (2010), Issue 3/4 Is that Jewish? , Pp. 569-595
  • Susanne Marten-Finnis, Heather Valencia: Language islands: Yiddish journalism in London, Wilna and Berlin 1880 - 1930 . Cologne: Böhlau, 1999, pp. 121–129
  • Anne-Christin Saß: From Mizrekh-Yid to the Jewish World. The organs of publication of the "Association of Eastern Jews" as documents of Eastern Jewish self-image in Berlin during the Weimar Republic , in: Eleonore Lappin, Michael Nage (eds.): German-Jewish Press and Jewish History . Bremen 2008, pp. 273-290.
  • Susanne Marten-Finnis, Igor Dukhan: Dream and Experiment. Time and Style in 1920s Berlin Émigré Magazines: Zhar-Ptitsa and Milgroym . East European Jewish Affairs 35, no.2 (2005)

Web links

Commons : Milgroim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milgroim = pomegranate
  2. ^ A b c d Susanne Marten-Finnis, Heather Valencia: Language islands: Yiddish journalism in London, Wilna and Berlin 1880 - 1930 . Cologne: Böhlau, 1999, pp. 121–129
  3. ↑ a b c Delphine Bechtel: Milgroym, a Yiddish magazine , 1997, pp. 420-426
  4. ↑ Zingman, Doldrums , at YIVO
  5. ^ Susanne Marten-Finnis, Heather Valencia: Language islands: Yiddish journalism in London, Wilna and Berlin 1880 - 1930 . Cologne: Böhlau, 1999, pp. 129-137