Moishe Broderzon
Polish Jewish poet and theatre director (1890-1956)
Moishe Broderzon (Yiddish: משה בראָדערזאָן; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1890 – 17 August 1956) was a Yiddish poet, theatre director, and the founder of the Łódź literary group Yung-yidish.
Personal life
He was born 1890 in Moscow, but his family was among the Jews expelled in 1891. His father moved to Łódź; his mother took her children to her father's home in Nesvizh (now in Belarus). In 1900, the family was reunited in Łódź.
He became a bookkeeper and began writing short narratives in the Yiddish press in Łódź. In 1914 he issued a collection of his poems called Shvartse fliterlekh (Black Spangles). He was a founder of Yung-Yidish artists collaborative.
[Broderson's] extravagant appearance quickly made an impression on the Yiddish cultural circles organized around the tutelary figure of the Yiddish and Hebrew writer Yitschak Katzenelson. Broderzon had long, thick black hair, Pushkin-style sideburns, and a black shirt characteristic of a Russian worker. He was the only poet in Łódź to wear amber and coral necklaces, and rings on his fingers..
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