MUKDONI, A.

MUKDONI, A.
MUKDONI, A. (pseudonym of Alexander Kappel; 1877–1958), Yiddish essayist, and theater critic. Born in Lyakhovichi, Belorussia, he began his literary career in Warsaw in 1906, specializing in theater criticism and publishing widely in Yiddish journals in Poland, Russia, and the U.S. Before earning a doctorate in labor law from the University of Bern, Switzerland, he studied in yeshivah and a Russian high school. After World War I, he edited the Kovno daily Nayes, before immigrating to the U.S in 1922. There he joined the daily Morgn-Zhurnal as literary and theater critic. He published Ertseylungen un Skitsn ("Stories and Sketches," 1911), and Y.L. Perets un dos Yidishe Teater ("I.L. Peretz and the Yiddish Theater," 1949. in addition to four volumes of memoirs: Mayne Bagegenishn ("My Encounters," 1949–55). He published his best critical essays in the volume Teater ("Theater," 1927), which includes keen observations on the Yiddish theater and Yiddish actors. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Rejzen, Leksikon, 2 (1927), 360–4; LNYL, 5 (1963), 547–53; S. Bickel, Shrayber fun mayn Dor (1958), 215–21; Mukdoni Yoyvl-Zamlbukh (1927). ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Z. Zilbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater, 2 (1934), 1284–6. (Shlomo Bickel / Anita Norich (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Mukdoni (Kappel), Alexander — (1877 1958)    American Yiddish essayist and theatre critic. He was born in Lyakhovichi in Belorussia. After World War I he edited the Yiddish daily Nayes produced in Kovno. In 1922 he settled in the US, where he wrote for the Yiddish daily… …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

  • GUTMAN, CHAIM — ( Der Lebediker / The Lively One ; 1887–1961), Yiddish humorist and theater critic. Born in Petrikov (Belorussia), he immigrated to the U.S. in 1905, where he became successful as a writer of epigrams and sketches for numerous periodicals,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • HERMAN, DAVID — (Nathan David; 1876–1937), Yiddish theater producer. Born in Warsaw, Herman had a traditional education, studied dramaturgy in Warsaw, wrote initially in Polish and Hebrew, but turned to Yiddish when he joined the bund . He organized a dramatic… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • JEWISH MORNING JOURNAL — (Yid. Der Morgen Zhornal), U.S. Yiddish daily. Founded in 1901 by the politically conservative and religiously Orthodox publisher Jacob Saphirstein, and edited by Peter Wiernik, the Morning Journal was for years New York City s only morning… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • YIDDISHER KULTUR FARBAND (YKUF) — YIDDISHER KULTUR FARBAND (YKUF), a U.S. association for preserving and developing Yiddish culture in Yiddish and in English. Yiddisher Kultur Farband was founded in 1937. Other branches of the international YKUF were established in various… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”