Peretz Hirschbein

Perez deer leg ( born November 7, 1880 in Kleschtel, Grodno; † August 16, 1948 in Los Angeles ) was a Yiddish playwright and poet who has remained particularly through his symbolist and mystical dramas in memory that the on all major platforms Jewish world have been performed successfully.

Life

Perez deer leg was born the son of a poor miller and grew up in the seclusion of his native town. Up to the age of 20 he learned Hebrew and the Talmud, then went to Vilna, the poale Zionist movement concluded and published songs and essays in Hebrew periodicals.

In 1905 he published in the journal Ha - Vilna zeman his first realistic drama in Hebrew: Miriam, which came out in Yiddish, 1906. As a result, his style and also the preferred language changed: From this point on, he wrote a variety of symbolist dramas, mostly in Yiddish, which earned him the nickname Jewish Maeterlinck. Since 1904 Yiddish performances were allowed to return to Russia, which had been banned for various reasons in 1883.

To contribute to the uplift of the Jewish stage, he organized since the beginning of 1908 in Odessa, a troupe of actors who brought the plays of Asch, Pinski, Gordin and Sholem Aleichem for performance in addition to his own, but already in 1910 during a tour of Poland and Russia - mainly due to material problems, the literary claim was too high for the general public - broke apart again.

Some time later he wrote his stage Effective People The piece blow Kretschme that appear more than once successfully and became an important piece of repertoire of the famous Vilna Troupe, which had formed in 1916 under German occupation.

The end of 1911 emigrated Perez deer leg to America and tried first as a farmer in the New York Catskills as some time later in Argentina. In the United States, his plays were - apart from more private circles - but only from 1918 listed ( Moritz Schwarz ' Jewish Art Theatre), but then had resounding success.

Perez deer leg also wrote children's stories and trip reports that he wrote on his many walks through America, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Africa, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

He was married to the poet Esther Schumjatscher who accompanied him on his many years of world travel.

Works (selection)

Known publication or date of origin

  • Miriam, 1905 ( realistic drama; Hebrew)
  • Of those sat tach, 1906 ( " Across the river ", Drama )
  • The Earth, 1907 ( Drama )
  • The T'kiath kaph, 1907 ( = " contract ", Drama )
  • Auf'n Scheidweg, 1907 ( drama, released in anthology Vun way to way to Warsaw 1911)
  • The Golden Keyt, 1908
  • Bam Breg ( Drama, released in anthology Vun way to way to Warsaw 1911)
  • The Last ( Drama, released in anthology Vun way to way to Warsaw 1911)
  • The blow Kretschme, 1912 ( Drama )
  • A farworfen angle, 1912 ( comedy, again it comes to the issue of freedom of choice of partner )
  • The green fields, 1916 ( Drama )
  • The Schmidts [= smith ] daughters, ca 1918 ( Drama )
  • The Nevele, about 1924 ( Drama )
  • Across America, about 1925
  • Vun wate countries, about 1925
  • Arum in the world, 1927 ( more travelogues )
  • Erets Israel, 1929 ( travel narrative )
  • Mane Kinderjuhren, 1934
  • The first Melech [= King] in Yisrael, 1934
  • Roite Fields, 1935 (novel)

Without year or not determined

  • A life var a life ( drama)
  • Ba the broad way ( Drama )
  • Twilight ( drama)
  • The child in the world ( Drama )
  • The Intellegent ( Drama )
  • Lonely Worlds ( Drama )
  • Joel ( Drama )
  • Kwuremblumen ( Drama )
  • Mass Lech ( children's stories )
  • Schedem know it ( drama)
  • Varn Morgenstern ( story )
  • Vun my album ( songs in prose )
  • Waite yn nunte ( Drama )
  • Wi mode of life vargeht ( Drama )
  • Yn of Darkness ( Drama )
  • Between Tug yn night ( drama)

Translations

  • Leo Tolstoy, Selected Writings, Vilnius 1912 ( Yiddish )

Total and collection expenses

  • Collected Works, five volumes, 1916
  • Dramot, Warsaw 1922 ( selected dramas, translated into Hebrew by deer leg itself)
  • Windmills, collection of his later dramas, no year

References / Footnotes

Literature / Sources (Selection)

  • Mokdani, in: The Ray II, 1910
  • Travel, leksikon ..., 1914
  • I. Entin, in: Future, 1916
  • I. Entin, in: Future, 1921
  • B. Gorin, history fun Yiddish theater, Vol II, New York 1923
  • Wininger 1925 et seq Vol III VII (Amendments )
  • Samuel Meisels, articles deer leg, Perez, in: Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol II, Berlin 1927
  • Literary Bleter 230 ff, 1932
  • Encyclopedia of Judaism, etc. Gütersloh 1971
  • Liptzin Sol, A History of Yiddish Literature, New York 1972
  • Stemberger, History of Jewish Literature, 1977
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