Aaron Zeitlin

Aaron Zeitlin

Aaron Zeitlin (born in Belarus 1898 - died in New York in 1973), the son of the famous Jewish writer Hillel Zeitlin, authored several books on Yiddish literature, Poetry and Parapsychology.

Biography

Zeitlin spent his formative years in Homel and Vilna. In 1920, he and his brother Elchanan traveled to Palestine, and in 1921 they returned to Warsaw.

His literary abilities were apparent already in his youth when he contributed some articles to the Odessa-based children's journal "Perachim" and "Hashachar".

His first piece of literature "Matatron" appeared in "Der Yiddishe Velt" in 1914, followed by many more articles published in many of the leading Jewish journals of that time.

In March 1939, he was invited to come to New York by Yiddish Playwright Maurice Schwartz and settled there until his death.

His play "Chelmer Chachomim" had already opened to critical acclaim at the Yiddish Theatre in New York prior to his arrival, and he slowly became a fixture of the Yiddish scene.

For a time, he was also Professor of Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

He was close with other Yiddish literary giants of his day, including Isaac Bashevis Singer who wrote of the former "his greatest vice was literature, religious literature and anything and everything of intellectual value, he was a man possessing vast knowledge, a veritable spiritual giant".

Together with Sholom Secunda he wrote the famous Yiddish folk song Dos kelbl (also known as Donna Donna) which was covered by many musicians, including Donovan and Joan Baez.

Published works

"Ha-meziut ha-aheret" (The other Dimension), Tel Aviv: Yavneh, 1967.

ources

*Alpert, Reuven. "Caught In The Crack", Wandering Soul Press, 2002. pp.151
*Faierstein, Morris M. trans. and Ed., "Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith" By Aaron Zeitlin. iuniverse: New York, 2007.

Links

* [http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/tmr/zeit3.pdf A Eulogy for Zeitlin by a friend (Yiddish)]
* [http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/tmr/zeit5.pdf A description of Zeitlin and his work (Yiddish)]
* [http://www.geocities.com/ramses1686/zeitlin.pdf Zeitlin's play "Der Yiddishe Melicha" and review(Hebrew)]
* [http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/tmr/zeit1.pdf Short biography of Zeitlin by a friend (Yiddish)]


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