Micha Josef Berdyczewski

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Micha Josef Berdyczewski
Modern Hebrew literature

Micha Josef Berdyczewski (

Yiddish and German and has been described as "the first Hebrew writer living in Berlin to be revered in the world of German letters".[1]

Biography

Micha Josef Berdyczewski was born in 1865 in the town of Medzhibozh (today

secular literature. He then moved to the Volozhin Yeshiva
, but there too, his pursuit of unconventional literature stirred anger and objection.

One of his earliest publications was about this period of his life—an article titled "Hetzitz V'nifga" (הציץ ונפגע in Hebrew—literally "peeked and got hurt", meaning "gone to heresy"), published in 1888 in the newspaper

Ha-Melitz
. Most of his works from this period were polemic, and his emotional style became his trademark throughout his writing career.

In 1890 he went to

philosophers Nietzsche[2] and Hegel, and was deeply influenced by them. In the ten years until his return to Ukraine
, he published many articles and stories in Hebrew journals. Up to 1900, the year in which he married Rahel Ramberg, Berdyczewski had published ten books.

Upon his return to Ukraine, Berdyczewski encountered the harsh reality of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement, and subsequently the subject of many of his stories is the deterioration of the traditional way of life.

After a short stay in

Weißensee
, Berlin.

Literary career

Berdyczewski adopted the surname Bin-Gorion, first used to sign a collection of his works that he published in Berlin in 1914.

Yiddish, and German. After his death, his wife and their son Emanuel Bin-Gorion
translated some of his works into German, among them Die Sagen der Juden ("The Legends of the Jews", 1935) and Der Born Judas ("The Well of Judah"), published in six volumes.

Berdyczewski's popularity among the Jews of his age is attributed to his success in expressing their ambivalent attitude towards the traditional Jewish world, and to the secular European culture.

Commemoration

The Israeli moshav Sdot Micha, founded in 1955, was named after him.

Published works

References

  1. ^ Micha Josef Berdyczewski -- Gelman Library
  2. ^ Aschheim, S. E. (1992). The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany 1890–1990. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, [1].
  3. ^ "Berdyczewski" (ברדיצ'בסקי), in "ynet" on-line Hebrew encyclopedia.

External links

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