David Pinski

David Pinski (rarely also: David Pinsky; pseudonym as a book author from time to time: D. pulse; born April 5, 1872 in Mogilev; † August 11, 1959 in Haifa ) was a Yiddish story writer, playwright and journalist who took particularly social issues and the type of the Jewish worker raised in a literary rank. In the first decades after 1900 he was in Russia and America, the most performed modern authors.

Life

David Pinski lived in Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin and Switzerland. Since 1894 he began an intense activity within the Yiddish literature and was among others the main staff of the Yom Tov Bletlech of Perez.

In December 1899 he moved to appeal to responsible literary staff of the workers' newspaper in the United States, lived and worked in New York.

He was a journalist (including Ovend Journal, The Arbeiter-Zeitung, Der Tog in New York), playwright and storyteller, active in the Jewish labor movement (1913 in New York co-founder of Farband Labor Zionist Order), and lived since 1949 in Israel, where he continued to Yiddish wrote pieces, but hardly found a jiddischsprechendes audience.

Trivia

Artur Landsberger took two posts by David Pinski in the German anthology The ghetto book. The best stories of the ghetto (1914 ), and left in his novel Berlin without Jews ( 1925), a main character's code name David Pinski accept.

Works and works (selection)

Dramas, stories, Literarhistorisches

  • Eisik Sheftel, 1899
  • The Mother, 1901
  • The intermediate family. Tragedy of the last and only Jews, 1903 ( Drama )
  • The Oizer [ "Treasure " ], 1906 ( tragi-comedy in four acts )
  • Yankel Schmid, 1906
  • The eibiger Yid or The Stranger, 1906 ( one-act drama)
  • Gabrielle and the women, 1908
  • Dos Yiddish drama. A iberblik iber ir Developement, New York 1909 ( literary historical work )
  • The schtummer Messiah, 1911
  • Anyone with san God, 1912
  • Duvd Hamelech un sane Waber, 1912
  • The Mountaineers, 1912
  • With winner flags, 1916
  • Bergsteiner, 1918
  • Fortunately forget 1918
  • The krimme Due fun Love, 1918
  • Arnold Levenberg, 1919
  • The last property HAKL, 1923
  • The House of Noah Edon, 1929 ( narrative, the Yiddish original was not published until 1939)

Solomon's women

A special mention deserves Pinskis fictional literary major project to the women of Solomon. He had planned to portray all the " thousand women of Solomon ". At this cycle, he worked from 1921 to 1936 during this period., He completed 105 stories on this topic.

Editorial Boards (selection)

  • The worker, 1904-1911 ( socialist weekly, together with the journalist Josh. Schlossberg )
  • The Yiddish Wochenschrift, 1912 ( short-lived literary and socialist journal, also together with Schlossberg )

Other activities as editor (selection)

  • The Jewish fighters since 1916 ( high literary standing poalezionistisches organ )
  • The time from September 1920 to April 1922 ( daily newspaper, editor in chief )

Werkausgaben

  • Complete edition of the plays, New York 1918-1920 (5 volumes)
  • Oysgeklibene Shriftn, Buenos Aires 1969
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