Noah Pryłucki

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Noah Pryłucki (before 1928)
Noah Pryłucki (seated second from left, between Itzik Manger and Salman Reisen , 1928)

Noah Pryłucki , also Noaḥ Prilutsḳi , (born October 1, 1882 in Berdychiv , Russian Empire ; died August 12, 1941 in Vilnius ) was a Yiddish philologist, lawyer and Polish politician of the Folk Party .

Life

Noah Pryłucki was the son of the businessman and later journalist and newspaper editor Tsevi Pryłucki (1862-1942). He grew up in Kremenets and attended public school. From 1902 he studied law at the University of Warsaw and was expelled from the university for political activity in the Russian Revolution of 1905 . Pryłucki agitated with the Poale Zion for a Jewish university in Russia in the Hebrew language (Ivrit). He continued his law studies in St. Petersburg until 1907 and wrote fiction, feature articles and essays in Hebrew and Russian, as well as articles for the Warsaw Yiddish press. He took part in the Chernivtsi Conference in 1908, changed his stance on the language dispute and since then has been agitating for a Yiddish culture.

Pryłucki married Paula Rozental and worked as a lawyer in Warsaw from 1909. In 1910 he co-founded the newspaper Der Moment , which became the voice of the Folk Party he founded and led in 1916. Pryłucki was elected to the Warsaw Municipal Council, whose elections were organized by the German occupying forces.

At the end of the war he became a member of the Provisional Council of State and he was elected to the constituent Sejm in 1919 , but had to resign because he had not received Polish citizenship. From 1922 to 1927 he was a regular member of the Sejm on the list of national minorities. The Folk Party then disappeared as one of the many Jewish splinter groups.

Pryłucki wrote a variety of articles on the Yiddish language and its dialects. In 1924 he was co-founder and co-editor of the language magazine Yidishe filologye . In 1938/39 he was editor of the in-house magazine Yidish far ale of the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institute (YIVO) in Vilnius. During the German conquest of Poland, he fled to independent Lithuania , which in 1940 seized the region around Vilna. Lithuania for its part was occupied by the Soviet Union, and in October 1940 Pryłucki was offered the newly created Yiddish professorship at the University of Vilnius . In January 1941 he succeeded Max Weinreich , who had fled to the USA, as head of the YIVO Institute in Vilnius. After the German conquest in 1941, Pryłucki was murdered as a Jew by the National Socialist occupiers on August 18. His private archive was destroyed.

Fonts (selection)

  • Natsionalizm un Demokratizm (Yiddish). 1907
  • Fern mizbeyekh . 1908
  • (Ed.): The yunger gayst . 1909
  • (Ed.): Golden sparks . 1909
  • (Ed.): Yidishe folkslider . 1911 and 1913
  • (Ed.): Noyekh Prilutskis zamlbikher far yidishn folklor, filologye un culture-geshikhte . 2 volumes. 1912 and 1917
  • Barg-aroyf . 1917
  • In Poyln . 1921
  • Dos geṿet: dialogues ṿegn shprakh un ḳulṭur . 1st volume. Warsaw: Farlag Ḳulṭur-lige, 1923

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  1. ↑ On the language dispute, see The Interwar Period Hebrew or Yiddish? , at Yadvashem
  2. ↑ Yiddish publications will be here in a transcription specified
personal data
SURNAME Pryłucki, Noah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prilutsḳi, Noaḥ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yiddish philologist, lawyer and Polish Folk Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berdychiv
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1941
Place of death Vilna