Eisik Scheftel, Ein Judisches Arbeiterdrama in Drei Akten. Autorisierte Ubertragung Aus Dem Judischen Manuskript Von Martin Buber

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In German. Leaves till uncut and untrimmed. 103, [5] pages. 203 x 145 mm. David Pinsky was a Yiddish language writer, best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to experience the industrial revolution, Pinski was the first to introduce to its stage a drama about urban Jewish workers; a dramatist of ideas, he was notable also for writing about human sexuality with a frankness previously unknown to Yiddish literature. He was also notable among early Yiddish playwrights in having stronger connections to German language literary traditions than Russian. He was raised in Vitebsk. At first destined for a career as a rabbi, he had achieved an advanced level in Talmudic studies by the age of 10. At 19 he left home, intending to study medicine in Vienna, Austria, but a visit to I.L. Peretz in Warsaw (then also under Russian control) convinced him to pursue a literary career instead. He briefly began studies in Vienna (where he also wrote his first significant short story, "Der Groisser Menshenfreint" ="The Great Philanthropist"), but soon returned to Warsaw, where he established a strong reputation as a writer and as an advocate of Labor Zionism, before moving to Berlin, Germany in 1896 and to New York City in 1899. In 1949 he immigrated to Israel. His naturalistic tragedy Isaac Sheftel tells of a technically creative weaver, whose employer scorns him, but exploits his inventions. He finally smashes the machines he has created, and falls into drunken self-destruction. Like many of Pinski's central characters, he is something other than a traditional hero or even a traditional tragic hero. N° de ref. del artículo 008343

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