Isaiah Spiegel

Isaiah Spiegel (Hebrew: ישעיהו שפיגל, Polish: Jeszajahu Szpigel; January 14, 1906 – July 14, 1990) was Polish and Israeli poet, writer and essayist writing in Yiddish, a Holocaust survivor (Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz II-Birkenau).[1][2][3][4]

Before deportation from the Łódź Ghetto he hid some writing. After the war he found the manuscripts with 16 stories, recalled more of them, and published.[5] After World War II he worked as a teacher in Łódź and wrote short stories in Yiddish. In 1951 he emigrated to Israel, where he worked as a clerk and continued writing in Yiddish.[3]

He was one of the portrayed in the 1948 documentary Mir Lebngeblibene [pl] ("We, Who Survivied", Yiddish: מיר לעבנגעבליבענע) by Natan Gross, the last documentary in Poland shot completely in Yiddish.

Books

  • ישעיהו שפיגל־־פרוזה סיפורית מגיטו לודז׳ : שישה־עשר סיפורים מפוענחים על פי כתבי־יד שניצלו בצירוף מבוא וראיון עם המחבר ("Narrative prose from the Lodz Ghetto: Sixteen stories deciphered from surviving manuscripts, with an introduction and interview with the author")
  • 1947: Małches geto; Łódź, short stories
    • 1998: Ghetto Kingdom: Tales of the Lodz Ghetto (translated by David H. Hirsch and Roslyn Hirsch)
  • 1966: Flamen fun der erd, Tel Aviv, novel
    • 2022: Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto (translated from Yiddish by Julian Levinson)
  • 1966: Shtign cum himl (Stairway to heaven; short stories Hebrew: מדרגות אל השמים : רומן, romanized: Madregot el ha-shamayim : roman: translation from Yiddish to Hebrew)

Awards

  • 1972: Itzik Manger Prize in Yiddish literature
  • 1975: Fichman Prize for Literature and Art (issued by the World Federation of Bessarabian Jews)[6]

References

  1. ^ Jeszajahu Szpigel (ID: psb.33824.1)
  2. ^ Rafał Żebrowski [pl], Spiegel (Szpigel) Izajasz, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny
  3. ^ a b Шпигель Иеша‘яху, The Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian, Based on the Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia
  4. ^ יצחק יאנאסוביץ (Itzhak Yanasowicz), "ישעיהו שפיגל - המספר של הגיטו" ("Isaiah Spiegel - The Ghetto's Narrator"), JSTOR 23873028
  5. ^ Ghetto Kingdom
  6. ^ הוענקו פרםים ע"ש פיכמן ("Fichman Prizes were Awarded"), Davar, June 4, 1975

Further reading

  • The translator's introduction to Ghetto Kingdom contains an extensive biographical essay about Isaiah Spiegel

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