Pinski, David

Pinski, David

▪ Israeli author
Pinski also spelled  Pinsky  
born April 5, 1872, Mogilyov, Russia [now in Belarus]
died Aug. 11, 1959, Haifa, Israel

      Yiddish playwright, novelist, and editor.

      Reared in Moscow, Vitebsk, and Vienna, Pinski moved as a young man to Warsaw, where he became a friend of the leading Yiddish writer Isaac Peretz. It was also in Warsaw that Pinski began his lifelong associations with the Jewish workers' movement. His first short story, “Der Groyser Mentshenfraynd” (“The Great Philanthropist”) was published in 1894. He edited a Yiddish anthology, Literatur un Lebn (“Literature and Life”), and traveled to Berlin to further his studies. In 1899 he emigrated to the United States, where he wrote for and edited several Jewish labour periodicals. After the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 in Russia, he also became involved in the Zionist labour movement. From 1920 to 1922 he was president of the Jewish National Workers' Alliance, and he was president of the Jewish Culture Society from 1930 to 1953. In 1949 he moved to Haifa, Israel, and his home became a gathering place for young Yiddish writers.

      Pinski's most successful work was the comic play Der Oitzer (“The Treasure”), which was performed in New York City and Germany. His play Der Eybiker Yid (1926, “The Eternal Jew”) was performed in Moscow by the Hebrew troupe Habima in 1919. His novels include Dos Hoyz fun Noyakh Edon (1913; The Generations of Noah Edon), which portrays the deterioration of Jewishness in America and argues against assimilation.

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