Philip Sendak

Philip Sendak (born 15 September 1894 in Zambrów, † June 1970 in Englishtown, Monmouth County, New Jersey) was an American businessman. As a children's book author, he was known by the posthumously published book In Grandpa's House, which was illustrated by his son Maurice Sendak.

Life

Philip Sendak was in a shtetl in Tsarist Russia (now Poland) into a Jewish family. Sendak's father was a businessman who dealt in wood and a shop had. Judging by the modest standards of the Jewish community was his family as wealthy. Philip had a love affair with a girl who was sent by his parents to America. Philip followed her by also emigrated to New York in 1913. When he arrived, she was already married to another man. In 1915 he married Sarah ( Sadie ) Schindler, as he comes from a Jewish family in Poland and immigrated recently. Sendak worked as a tailor in New York. In 1919 she got with Natalie ( Stacie Nettie ) their first child, Jack followed in 1923 and 1928, their third child, Maurice. Philip Sendak was a tailor, and operation together with three partners, a small tailoring operation, which was forced to close in the late 1920s during the economic depression. Philip Sendak loved to tell stories. Both Maurice and Jack, who were both well-known children's authors, led some of their talent back to this early influence.

The Polish Home by Philip Sendak had fallen to the Soviet Union during the Hitler -Stalin Pact. After 1941, the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union, were Sendak's father and all other relatives who had not emigrated in time, killed in the Holocaust of Germans and their helpers. Sendak received this message in late 1941 in a letter.

1968 died Sendak's wife Sadie. To cheer the grieving widower and for the record the stories, Maurice Sendak brought his 75 - year-old father in the following year to write his stories. Philip Sendak did this in Yiddish. In 1970 he died. Fifteen years later, his stories were published under the title In Grandpa 's House with illustrations of his son Maurice. The work, which contributes partly autobiographical and partly depicts the adventures of a childlike protagonist named David, was reacted favorably by critics. The reviewer of the New York Times looked into the stories a message from an " enchanted past." Who read the works of Philip and Maurice Sendak side by side, will witness a " loving dialogue " with each other and with the reader. In Publishers Weekly 's autobiography and the David stories than two stories are seen, the " fit seamlessly into a parable " to the stuck for Jews and non - Jews alike as for children and adults full of meaning. The a reviewer in the School Library Journal gave the book a " thought-provoking piece of shtetl philosophy ", which is, however, more suitable for adults with a connection to the " Old World ", as for modern American children. In Grandpa 's House has been translated into German, and was awarded the IRA / CBC Children's Choice Book Award of the Children's Book Council / International Reading Association.

Work

• In Grandpa's House, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, translated from the Yiddish by Seymour Barofsky. Harper & Row, New York 1985. In grandfather's house, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, from the American translated by Barbara Henninges. Diogenes, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-257-00686-1.