Shmuel Niger

Samuel Niger (also Shmuel Shmuel or Niger, pseudonym of Samuel Tscharny or Schmul Tscharni, Samuel Charney, . * 15 Junijul / June 27 1883greg in Dukora in Minsk, . † December 24, 1955 in New York) was a Russian Yiddish writer, critic and publicist. He is considered an important literary critic of Yiddish literature.

Life

Samuel Niger received a strictly Jewish education and studied up to the age of 17 the Talmud, but also profane sciences.

He was initially involved in politics (1904 co-founder of the Zionist - Socialist Party, journalistic staff of the party's newspaper The Naier way several times arrested by the Russian authorities and tortured ), was then, after the first literary attempts in Russian and Hebrew, employees and publisher of numerous Yiddish literary magazines and became the leading figure of the Yiddish culture work and Jiddischismus in Russia until the October Revolution.

Since August 1919, he lived in New York and was primarily for his decades appeared in Tog items to critics of the Yiddish literary life.

Works / editions (selection)

  • Because Yiddish Schraber, Vilnius 1912 (2 volumes) (also published in 1912 in Warsaw )
  • In memory of Scholem Aleichem, 1916 (together with Israel Zinberg )
  • Di Yiddish literature un di lezerin, Vilnius 1919
  • Cuddling because Bicher, New York 1922
  • Selected Writings, New York 1928 ( 3 volumes)
  • Mendele Mocher Sforim, New York 1928 (also Chicago 1936)
  • Shalom Aleichem, his most important works, his humor and his place in Yiddish literature, New York 1928
  • In kamf far a Naier dertsiung, New York 1940
  • The Tsveisprachigkait fun undser literature, Detroit, Mich.. 1941
  • Disability Seiler un romanistn, New York 1946
  • H. Leyvik, Toronto 1951
  • L. Y. Perets, Buenos Aires 1952
  • Leksikon fun der nayer Yidisher Literature, New York 1956
  • Criticism un critic, Buenos Aires 1959
  • Bleter fun history of Yiddish literature, New York in 1959
  • Yiddish Schraber fun tsvantsikstn jorhundert, New York 1972
  • Fun mayn togbuch, New York 1973
  • Bilingualism in the history of Jewish literature, Lanham Md. 1990 ( translated by Joshua A. Fogel )

Editorial assistant / editorship (selection)

  • Literary month Schriftn, Vilnius 1908 ( founded by Niger, A. Next, and Sch. Gorelik )
  • The Yiddish World (Vilnius, monthly journal ), 1912-1915
  • The Pinkas. Yearbook of Jewish literature, Vilnius 1913
  • The week 1914
  • העבר (Petersburg ), 1916
  • Culture and Education, 1918 ( ed. by Jewish Commissariat in Moscow)
  • The New World (Vilnius, monthly journal, on behalf of the Commissioner of Education, Moscow), 1918/1919
  • Wilner Tog ( until 1919, this newspaper was founded by Niger)
  • Forward ( New York ), 1919
  • The Tog (New York Yiddish daily newspaper ), 1920-1955
  • Dus Naie Life ( New York, Monthly Journal, together with Chaim Schitlowsky ), 1922 (only eleven numbers published )
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