Samuel Meisels

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Samuel Meisels (* 1877 in Przemyśl , Galicia , † after 1942) was an Austrian writer and translator.

Life

Samuel Meisels was of Jewish descent. From 1903 to 1914 he worked as an editor for the “Hamburger Israelitisches Familienblatt” and from 1918 for “Dr. Bloch's Wochenschrift ” . He then founded the Jewish magazine “Die Neuzeit” in Vienna and from 1924 worked as a freelance writer.

The end of his last years of life is not certain. In 1938 he lived in a desperate situation and went blind in Vienna and was finally deported. He was murdered in the Izbica ghetto on an unknown date, after 1942 .

He was married to Ettel Meisels, née Rapaport, who was murdered in 1941 in the Łódź ghetto . The couple had two daughters, Galia and Irma. Irma lived in Tel Aviv after 1945 .

Works

His work includes translations such as Scholem Alejchems (1859–1916) “Stempenju” , articles for newspapers and magazines, plays and articles for the Jewish lexicon . His "West-Ostenliche Miszellen" (1908), "Das Liebeslied" (1919), "Deutsche Klassiker im Ghetto" (1922) and "Judenköpfe" (1926) appeared independently . In his “Nachrichten” he explained the role of the German classics “in the intellectual life of Eastern European Jewry” . In 1935 his article on " Mose ben Maimon " appeared in the administrative gazette of the Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
  2. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
personal data
SURNAME Meisels, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Przemyśl
DATE OF DEATH after 1938