Summer 1937 (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. In Yiddish. 172 pages. Exl library with the deaccession stamp. 22 x 15 cm. Ziskind was born in Sedriszov, near Rzeszow, west Galicia, was educated in a Heder, then a Polish primary school, became a carpenter and in August 1914, following the outbreak of WWI, he joined the Austrian army as a volunteer, remaining at the front line until the end of 1918. In 1919 he came to Vienna, was an employee of the Yidishe morgenpost. In 1920 he left for Berlin, where he joined the Communist Party and was subsequently active in the left wing movement in Poland, Austria and Germany. From 1931 onwards he was in the Soviet Union. He participated in Yiddish and general Soviet writers' conferences in Minsk. At the Yiddish writers' conference in Minsk in March 1937 some of the spearkers attacked himone of them declaring publicly that "Gestapo agent Ziskind Lyev insinuated himself into Belorussian Yiddish literature" (Okyabr, Numger 121, Minsk 1937. That was the last he was heard of and he is rumoredto ahve been murdered in a camp somewhere inteh Petshora desert. He is one victim of Stalinism whose fate reamins a mystery. He wrote poems, short stories, and in 1919 he published the book "The Revival of Eretz Ysroel" (Vienna), in 1924 he published in "Oifgang" ("Sunrise"), which included novels and poems. Being a permanent contributor the the magazine Morgen-Freygayt (New York), he published "The Way to the Revolution of Getzl Safran" (1931) and "The Revolt of Shventa Sarne" (1932), and also "What I saw in Galicia." In Minsk, he was co-editor of the magazine "October".