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Hesheles, Yirmye

February 27, 1910–October 16, 2010

He was born in Glinyani (Glinyany), Galicia. He studied in religious elementary school, public school, and in 1930 he graduated from a Jewish high school in Lemberg. In the 1930s he studied medicine in the Universities of Prague and Pisa. In late 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He debuted in print in 1936 in Lemberger togblat (Lemberg daily newspaper) with fragments of a novel, Yosl dembners tsugang (Yosl Dembner’s approach). He was a regular contributor to Tog-morgn zhurnal (Day morning journal) in New York, writing articles, poems, books, theater, and art reviews, as well as his novel Gitale di tsiganke (Gitale the Gypsy, 1950-1951) and the long story Velvl paragraf (Velvl paragraph). He also published in Tsukunft (Future), Getseltn (Tents), Aba Gordin’s Shriftn (Writings), Di feder (The pen), Nyu yorker vokhnblat (New York weekly newspaper)—all in New York; and Goldene keyt (Golden chain) in Tel Aviv; among others. He co-edited Vayter (Further) in New York (1952-January 1958). In book form: Sonetn fun toye-voye (Sonnets of chaos) (New York: Eygnveg, 1957), 192 pp.; Lider (Poems) (New York: Eygnveg, 1963), 188 pp. In his sonnets, noted Shloyme Bikl, “the figure of a strange poet is hidden somewhere, and it would appear a fully formed poet with all manner of moods and reflections, which are expressed in poems of love and satire, in songs with a popular harmony and in idyllic paintings,…[but] the poet Hesheles demonstrates his poetic strengths…in poems full of thoughtful lyrics…. Hesheles second book Lider is immeasurably warmer, intensively lyrical,…prosodic, and spacious.”

Sources: Shloyme Bikl, Shrayber fun mayn dor (Writers of my generation), vol. 2 (Tel Aviv, 1965), pp. 117-27; A. Pat, Likht un shotn (Light and shadow) (New York, 1967), pp. 61-68; Yankev Glatshteyn, In der velt mit yidish (In the world with Yiddish) (New York, 1972), pp. 129-24.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 225.

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Hescheles, Jeremiah

English text translated and collated by  Dr. Josh Fogel.  Metadata, linking, collation of Yiddish texts and/or updates and editing to Yiddish and/or English texts by:

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Kagan Lexicon of Yiddish Writers

העשעלעס, ירמיה

27 פֿעב׳, 1910 –

[געבױרן אין] גליניאַני, גאַליציע. — געלערנט אין חדר, פֿאָלקשול
און 1930 געענדיקט ײדישע גימנאַזיע אין לעמבערג.
אין די דרײסיקער יאָרן שטודירט מעדיצין אין די
אוניװערסיטעטן פֿון פּראָג און פּיזאַ. סוף 1938
עמיגרירט קײן אַמעריקע. — 1936 דעביוטירט אין
לעמבערגער טאָגבלאַט מיט פֿראַגמענטן פֿון ראָמאַן
יאָסל דעמבנערס צוגאַנג. שטענדיקער
מיטאַרבעטער אין טאָג־מ״זש, װוּ געשריבן
אַרטיקלען, לידער, רעצענזיעס װעגן ביכער, טעאַטער
און קונסט, װי אױך דעם ראָמאַן גיטאַלע די ציגאַנקע
(1990–1951) און די לענגערע נאָװעלע װעלװל
פּאַראַגראַף. געדרוקט אױך אין ניו־יאָרקער
צוקוטט, געצעלטן, אַבא גאָרדינס שריפֿטן, די
פֿעדער, ניו־יאָרקער װאָכנבלאַט, גאָלדענע קײט
(תּ״א) א־אַ. מיטרעד׳ װײַטער (נ״י, 1952 — יאַנ׳
1958). — אין בוכפֿאָרעם: סאָנעטן פֿון חוהו ובֿוהז.
נ־י, אײגנװעג, 1951 092 זז׳; לידער. דאָרטן, 1693.
188 זז׳. — אין די סאָנעטן „אז ערגעץ־װוּפֿאַרשװוּנדן
די פֿיגור פֿון אַ דיכטער אַ זונדערלינג און עס האָט זיך
באַװיזן אַ פֿיל־געשטאַלטיקער פּאָעט מיט אַלערלײ
שטימונגען, נאָכטראַכטענישן, װאָס קומען צום
אױסדרוק אין לידער פֿון ליבע און פֿון סאַטירע, אין
געזאַנגען מיט אַ פֿאָלקסטימלעכן ניגון און אין
אידילישע געמעלען ... אָבער] זײַן פּאָעטישן כּוח װײזט
דער דיכטער העשעלעס אַרױס [...] דװקא אין די
לידער פֿון געדאַנקלעכער ליריק ] ה׳ס צװײט בוך
לידער איז אָן אַן ערד װאַרעמער, ליריש־
אינטענסיװער [...] פּראָזאָדיש און שפּראַכלעד
רחבֿותדיקער“. (ש. ביקל)

ש. בײל, שרײַבער פֿון מײן דור, 2. ת״א, 1965 זז׳ 17 אַ.
פּאַס, ליכט און שאָסן. נ״י, 1991. זז׳ 61–68די גלאַטשטײן, אין דער
װעלס מיט ײדיש. נ״י, 1792. זז׳ 120–124.

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