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Itzik Manger
Itzik Manger (Yiddish: איציק מאַנגער, 30 May 1901 – 21 February 1969) was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and 'master tailor' of the written word.
Manger was born to a Jewish family in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) in 1901. Manger was fond of creating fictional biographies for himself and passing them off as truth. In his most famous fake biography, submitted to the editors of the Leksikon fun yidishn teater, he claimed that he was born in Berlin in 1900 and did not learn Yiddish until the age of fourteen. His father, Hillel Helfer-Manger, was a skilled tailor in love with literature, which he referred to as 'literatoyreh' (a portmanteau of the Yiddish words literatura and Toyreh). As a teenager, Manger attended the Kaiserlich-Königliches III. Staatsgymnasium in Czernowitz, where he studied German literature until he was expelled for pranks and bad behaviour. He exchanged this traditional education for the backstage atmosphere of the Yiddish theatre.
Manger began publishing his early poems and ballads in 1921 in several new literary journals founded in the aftermath of World War I. Soon afterwards, he settled in Bucharest and wrote for the local Yiddish newspapers while giving occasional lectures on Spanish, Romanian, and Romani folklore.
He moved to Warsaw in 1927, the spiritual and intellectual center of Ashkenazi Jewry and "the most inspiring city in Poland." He lived in the capital of the Yiddish cultural world for the next decade, which became the most productive years of his entire career. Manger published his first book of poetry in 1929, Shtern afn dakh (Stars on the Roof), in Warsaw to critical acclaim. He was so well known by the following year that he was admitted to the Yiddish P.E.N. club, along with Isaac Bashevis Singer, Israel Rabon, and Joseph Papiernikov. It was around this time that he changed his name from the formal sounding Yitzkhok to the child's diminutive Itzik, thus actualizing his self-transformation from poet to folk bard.
Under the ruins of Poland
a golden head lies
both the head and the destruction
are very true.
— Itzik Manger, Under the Ruins of Poland
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Itzik Manger
Itzik Manger (Yiddish: איציק מאַנגער, 30 May 1901 – 21 February 1969) was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and 'master tailor' of the written word.
Manger was born to a Jewish family in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) in 1901. Manger was fond of creating fictional biographies for himself and passing them off as truth. In his most famous fake biography, submitted to the editors of the Leksikon fun yidishn teater, he claimed that he was born in Berlin in 1900 and did not learn Yiddish until the age of fourteen. His father, Hillel Helfer-Manger, was a skilled tailor in love with literature, which he referred to as 'literatoyreh' (a portmanteau of the Yiddish words literatura and Toyreh). As a teenager, Manger attended the Kaiserlich-Königliches III. Staatsgymnasium in Czernowitz, where he studied German literature until he was expelled for pranks and bad behaviour. He exchanged this traditional education for the backstage atmosphere of the Yiddish theatre.
Manger began publishing his early poems and ballads in 1921 in several new literary journals founded in the aftermath of World War I. Soon afterwards, he settled in Bucharest and wrote for the local Yiddish newspapers while giving occasional lectures on Spanish, Romanian, and Romani folklore.
He moved to Warsaw in 1927, the spiritual and intellectual center of Ashkenazi Jewry and "the most inspiring city in Poland." He lived in the capital of the Yiddish cultural world for the next decade, which became the most productive years of his entire career. Manger published his first book of poetry in 1929, Shtern afn dakh (Stars on the Roof), in Warsaw to critical acclaim. He was so well known by the following year that he was admitted to the Yiddish P.E.N. club, along with Isaac Bashevis Singer, Israel Rabon, and Joseph Papiernikov. It was around this time that he changed his name from the formal sounding Yitzkhok to the child's diminutive Itzik, thus actualizing his self-transformation from poet to folk bard.
Under the ruins of Poland
a golden head lies
both the head and the destruction
are very true.
— Itzik Manger, Under the Ruins of Poland
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