1. David ben Saul Frischmann was a Hebrew and Yiddish modernist writer, poet and translator.
14 Facts About David Frischmann
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David Frischmann edited several important Hebrew periodicals, and wrote fiction, poetry, essays, feuilletons, literary criticisms, and translations.
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David Frischmann was born in the town of Zgierz to Shaul and Freida Beila Frischmann.
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David Frischmann showed literary talent at a young age, and was considered a prodigy.
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Between 1895 and 1910 David Frischmann studied philology, philosophy and the history of art at the University of Breslau where he befriended Micha Josef Berdyczewski.
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David Frischmann briefly moved to Moscow following the Russian Revolution of 1917, where he became chairman of the editorial board of the Stybel Publishing House.
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David Frischmann returned to Warsaw after the Bolsheviks closed the publishing house down in 1919.
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David Frischmann went to Berlin in 1922 to be treated for a serious illness, and died there that year.
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David Frischmann's last work was a translation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus into Hebrew, which appeared posthumously.
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David Frischmann published his first article, in Chaim Selig Slonimski's journal Ha-Tsfira, at the age of 16.
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David Frischmann went on to publish articles and poems in Ha-Shachar, Ha-Melitz, and Ha-Yom, and later edited Ha-Dor and Ha-Tkufa.
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David Frischmann moved to Warsaw in the mid-1880s, where he wrote Otiyot porhot, a series of long stories.
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David Frischmann translated works of European literature into Hebrew, among them works by Nietzsche, Pushkin, Eliot, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, and Ibsen.
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David Frischmann visited the Land of Israel in 1911 and 1912 on behalf of the newspapers Ha-Tzefira and Haynt.