Avraham Ben Yitzhak
Avraham Ben Yitzhak ( Avraham Ben- Yishak, Abraham sun ) (* September 13, 1883 in Przemysl, † 1950 in Israel) was a Hebrew poet, Austrian- Israeli literary critic and scholar.
Life
A native of Galicia Yitzhak Ben Eliezer Lipshitz learned in 1900 from Lviv ( Lvov ), who encouraged him to publish his poems. He studied in Berlin and Vienna without qualifications and published some poems in Hebrew, which are considered the first modern Hebrew poetry. In addition, some of his literary critical essays published anonymously. Martin Buber published one of his essays with attribution.
In 1913 he was offered a position as lecturer of Hebrew literature and psychology at a Teachers' College in Jerusalem offered, but on the way there he crashed hard and had to return to Vienna in order to cure himself. 1915 his remaining at Przemysl works were destroyed during the war of the First World War, which plunged him into a deep depression. In the 1920s he taught at the Hebrew Pedagogical Institute in Vienna and became ill with tuberculosis. Some wealthy friends supported him, hoping that he would take up his poetic and essayistic work again. Meanwhile, he gathered in Vienna coffee houses some friends and admirers around him, including James Joyce, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Elias Canetti and Hermann Broch.
Canetti, who first met him in 1933, described him as " Dr. Sun" in his memoir The eye game. In this representation, Yitzhak Ben appears as a religious, philosophical, psychological and sociological well-rounded scholar with amazing social foresight. Sun practiced at this time a great influence on Canetti.
When the Nazis invaded in 1938 in Vienna, Yitzhak Ben escaped to Jerusalem. There he marked his contemporaries, such as Leah Goldberg, as a silent poet. 1950 Ben Yitzhak died of tuberculosis.
Works expenditure
- Poems, Tarshish Books, 1952 [ Shirim, Hebrew ]
- Collected Poems, Hakibbutz Hameuchad / Siman Kriah, 1992 [ Ha - Shirim Col, Hebrew ]
- It went away the things. Poems and Fragments, translated from the Hebrew by Efrat Gal - Ed, Christoph Meckel, edited by Efrat Gal - Ed, Christoph Meckel. Hanser Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-446-17876-7