Di Chaliastre
Jewish avant-garde literary and artistic group
Di Chaliastre or Khalyastre (די כאַליאַסטרע, from Polish "halastra" - gang) was a Jewish avant-garde expressionist-futuristic group of poets, who worked in Warsaw between 1919 and 1924. The poets wrote in Yiddish and published a namesake magazine.
The name of the group comes from the term Hillel Zeitlin used for them in the newspaper Der Moment. The group was formed around 1922 around Michał Weichert's literary and artistic monthly magazine "Ringen", published since 1921. Its main contributors were Peretz Markish, Melech Ravitch and Uri Zvi Greenberg.
Poets Issac Kipnis, Moisei Khashevatsky, and David Hofstein also became a part of the group.
History
Seth L. Wolitz divided the group's history into three periods:
(1) the year 1919, with the Łódź group associated with Yung-yidish; (2) the transitional period 1921–1922, with the group surrounding Mikhal Vaykhert (Michał Weichert) and Alter-Sholem Kacyzne's Ringen; and (3) the golden period of 1922–1924, which spawned Di Khalyastre, Vog (The Scales; edited by Melech Ravitch), and Albatros, the most thoroughly avant-garde expressionist journal of Uri Tsevi Grinberg.
The first edition of the almanac with the title "Khalyastre" was published in Warsaw in 1922; the editors were Peretz Markish and Israel Joshua Singer. The second issue came out in Paris in 1924; editors: Markish and Oser Varshawski, artist - Marc Chagall.
Moishe Broderzon's poem was chosen as a motto of the journal.
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