Mordechai Spector

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Mordechai Spektor (also: Mordechaj Spektor ; * May 5, 1858 in Uman , Kyiv Governorate ; † March 15, 1925 in New York ) was a Yiddish narrator, realistic portrayal of the Jewish milieu (approx. 50 novels and stories from the lives of workers, Craftsmen, small merchants and the Jewish family; his main work is Der Yiddischer Muschik , “The Jewish Farmer”, 1884); since 1921 he lived in the USA.

life and work

Mordechai Spektor received a strictly religious education and began writing at an early age. He published his first work A Novel Without a Name as well as a few feature pages in Zederbaum's Yiddisches Volksblatt (1883), soon afterwards his Zionist novel Der Yiddischer Muschik , which had great success (3rd edition Warsaw 1921) and Spektor was appointed to Saint Petersburg as co-editor of the Volksblatt , in which he published a large number of features, reviews, travel pictures and stories. In Petersburg he married a daughter of the Hebrew writer A. Sch. Friedberg, who supported him in his work.

In 1887 he settled in Warsaw and was the editor of Hausfreunds (literary-historical anthologies, five volumes edited by Spektor, 1887–1896, which also includes Spector's extensive, unfinished historical novel Baal Schemtow , a lovingly positive description that is new within the Haskala literature the beginnings of Hasidism ), the Jomtow-Blettlech (since 1894, together with Perez , whom he helped to achieve his first literary success) and the weekly Blettlech ( weekly papers ). Since then he has worked for a large number of Yiddish newspapers and collector's books ( Fraind , Hilf , Jid , in the latter including the stories Kalikes , A Strike vin Kapzunem , Brilen ; Yiddish People's Newspaper including the Women's World , 1902–1903, together with Hurwitz; Moment , Tog , Weg , Die Zeit , Wilna, 1906; Friday , Warsaw, 1907; Unser Lebn , 1907–1909, together with Sch. Hochberg; Die naje Welt , since 1909, later combined with the Warsaw moment and others).

When the war began, Mordechai Spektor moved to Odessa . At the end of 1920 he left Russia with his second wife, a sister of David Pinski , and traveled through Europe, where he was widely celebrated as a great writer among the Jewish population. In the autumn of 1921 he came to New York and continued his literary and journalistic activity there tirelessly, above all for the Jüdischer Tagblatt , in which he published a number of stories, feature pages and reports ( Von seine Welt , Soides , Der groisser Jachsen , Helden fun der Zat , Jewish students , Varblondzete , From the life of Jewish girls kidnapped in monasteries , Dem Apikoires Wab ).

In the last years of his life his stories from Brazlav as well as his memoirs, which were also important from a literary-historical point of view, were published ( republished in Hebrew: M. Spektor, Mein Leben , 3teile , Warsaw 1928).

Mordechai Spektor was also one of the first to collect and publish Jewish proverbs (later incorporated into Bernstein's collection).

A 13-volume edition of the works of Spektors appeared around 1930.

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personal data
SURNAME Spector, Mordecai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spector, Mordechai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yiddish writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Uman
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1925
Place of death new York