Noach Pryłucki
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Noach (Nojach) Pryłucki or Noach Prilutski (1 October 1882 in
In 1910–1936, Pryłucki was the editor of the Folkist newspaper Warszawer Togblat (The Warsaw Daily), later renamed as Der Moment. In 1916 he was the founder and then became the leader of the Jewish People's Party in Poland (
Pryłucki authored numerous books on Yiddish folklore, philology, culture and theatre, published in Warsaw.[6][7] He once said of Yiddish theatre that it did not arise simultaneously with theatre in other European "national" languages; he conjectured that this was at least in part because the Jewish sense of nationality favoured Hebrew over Yiddish as a "national" language, but few Jews of the period were comfortable using Hebrew outside of a religious/liturgical context.[8]
After Soviet forces took Vilna in January 1941, he was appointed the head of the YIVO Institute.[9]
He was murdered by the Gestapo in Vilnius (Wilno) in August 1941.[10][11]
References
- YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
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- ISBN 978-0-8047-5512-2. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
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- ^ Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science (1933). Studies in history, economics, and public law. p. 208. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ^ Prilutski, Noah (1917). Noyeḥ Prilutskis zamelbikher far Yidishen folḳlor, filologie un ḳulṭurgeshikhṭe. Nayer Ferlag. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-657-02498-7. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ISBN 973-98272-2-5.
- YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.
- ISBN 9789652294852.
- ISBN 978-0-8276-0235-9. Retrieved 8 September 2012.