Simon Horontchik | |
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![]() Portrait of Horontchik by
Gela Seksztajn | |
Native name | שמעון האָראָנטשיק |
Born | Vyelun, Kalisz Governorate, Vistula Land | 13 June 1889
Died | September 1939 Kalushin, Poland | (aged 50)
Language | Yiddish |
Simon Horontchik ( Yiddish: שמעון האָראָנטשיק; 13 June 1889 – September 1939) was a Polish Jewish novelist and short story writer writing in Yiddish.
Horontchik was born into a poor Hasidic family in Wieluń. He worked as a labourer at a lacework factory in Kalisz from the age of 17 until the outbreak of the First World War, [1] during which time he began composing poetry. He narrowly escaped the destruction of Kalisz in August 1914, fleeing to Lodz and then Sompolno. There he became a grocer and married.
His first publication was a short story in the Yiddish daily Lodzsher Togblat in 1916. He published poetry in numerous publications until 1921, when he published his first book, Feldblumen ('Flowers of the Field'; Warsaw, 1921), thereafter devoting himself primarily to prose writing. [2]
He lived for several years in Vlatslavek, Paris, Berlin, and Warsaw. [2] [3] He fled toward Vilna upon the Nazi occupation of Warsaw in September 1939, but ran into German troops engaged in a pogrom in Kalushin. He committed suicide to avoid a violent death. [4] [5]
Simon Horontchik | |
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![]() Portrait of Horontchik by
Gela Seksztajn | |
Native name | שמעון האָראָנטשיק |
Born | Vyelun, Kalisz Governorate, Vistula Land | 13 June 1889
Died | September 1939 Kalushin, Poland | (aged 50)
Language | Yiddish |
Simon Horontchik ( Yiddish: שמעון האָראָנטשיק; 13 June 1889 – September 1939) was a Polish Jewish novelist and short story writer writing in Yiddish.
Horontchik was born into a poor Hasidic family in Wieluń. He worked as a labourer at a lacework factory in Kalisz from the age of 17 until the outbreak of the First World War, [1] during which time he began composing poetry. He narrowly escaped the destruction of Kalisz in August 1914, fleeing to Lodz and then Sompolno. There he became a grocer and married.
His first publication was a short story in the Yiddish daily Lodzsher Togblat in 1916. He published poetry in numerous publications until 1921, when he published his first book, Feldblumen ('Flowers of the Field'; Warsaw, 1921), thereafter devoting himself primarily to prose writing. [2]
He lived for several years in Vlatslavek, Paris, Berlin, and Warsaw. [2] [3] He fled toward Vilna upon the Nazi occupation of Warsaw in September 1939, but ran into German troops engaged in a pogrom in Kalushin. He committed suicide to avoid a violent death. [4] [5]