Leopold Kompert
Leopold Kompert (15 May 1822 – 23 November 1886) was a Bohemian
He studied at the universities of
Kompert began his literary activity in the Pressburger Zeitung. From 1848 to 1852 he was editor of the Österreichischer Lloyd. As creator of ghetto literature he was called The Auerbach of the ghetto. His stories depicting the life, customs, and manners of the Bohemian Jews have become classical and have found many imitators. He draws the transition from the life in the narrow ghetto to the farmer's life in the open field; and he shows the struggles, doubts, and misgivings of those who, yielding to the impulse of modern times, undergo the changes of their newly chosen career. Seeing that under the leveling influence of the present day the characteristic inner Jewish life is threatened to vanish, he endeavors to preserve its originality, its deeper psychological, sentimental, and ethical spirit, for the knowledge of posterity.
Kompert's first story, Der Schnorrer, appeared in 1846 in
- Geschichten aus dem Ghetto, Leipzig, 1848;
- Böhmische Juden, Vienna, 1851;
- Am Pfluge, Berlin, 1855;
- Neue Geschichten aus dem Ghetto, Prague, 1860;
- Geschichten einer Gasse, Berlin, 1865;
- Zwischen Ruinen, ib. 1873;
- Franzi und Heini, eine Wiener Geschichte, ib. 1880;
- Verstreute Geschichten, ib. 1883.
In Franzi und Heini, a picture of Vienna society, the Jewish peddler Perl Blüthenstern plays an important part. Some of these stories were first published in Wertheimer's Jahrbuch für Israeliten. A complete edition of Kompert's works in eight volumes appeared in Berlin, 1882–83, and a new edition in Leipzig, 1887.
In 1863, Kompert published an article by
Works
- 1848 - Aus dem Ghetto (Erzählungen)
- 1851 - Böhmische Juden (Erzählungen)
- 1855 - Am Pflug (Roman)
- 1860 - Neue Geschichten aus dem Ghetto (Erzählungen)
- 1865 - Geschichten einer Gasse
- 1875 - Zwischen Ruinen (Roman)
- 1881 - Franzi und Heini (Roman)
- Der Dorfgeher
- Die Jahrzeit
- Die Schwärmerin
- Eisik's Brille
- Gottes Annehmerin
- Judith die Zweite
- Ohne Bewilligung
- Leseprobe aus Die Kinder des Randars
References
- ^ "This day, May 15, in Jewish history". Cleveland Jewish News.
External links
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer & S. Mannheimer (1901–1906). "Leopold Kompert". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- Texte im Internet & Sekundäres
- https://web.archive.org/web/20041028150536/http://home.tiscalinet.ch/biographien/k/Kompert.htm
- Works by Leopold Kompert at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Leopold Kompert at Projekt Gutenberg-DE
- Works by or about Leopold Kompert at Internet Archive
- Die Neuzeit, B314, a digitized Austrian periodical founded by Kompert, at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York