Английская Википедия:David Apotheker

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Шаблон:Infobox writer David Apotheker (Шаблон:Lang-yi; 28 August 1855 – 23 October 1911) was a Lithuanian-born Yiddish and Hebrew humorist, poet, journalist, and printer.

Biography

Apotheker born in Ponevezh, Kovno Governorate, the son of a prominent Maskil, Jacob Apotheker.Шаблон:R He was orphaned at a young age, and in 1868 went to Vilkomir to study under the guidance of Moses Loeb Lilienblum. He later was an auditor at Kiev University.

In 1877 Apotheker became involved in the nihilist movement, and was arrested in Kiev in 1879 for revolutionary activities.Шаблон:R He fled to Czernowitz, then the capital of Bukovina, where he opened a book store,Шаблон:R wrote for Hebrew and Yiddish papers, and published his first book, Ha-Nevel ('The Harp'), containing Hebrew and Yiddish poems (1881).Шаблон:R

He emigrated to the United States in 1888, where he unsuccessfully tried to found a communist colony.Шаблон:R He thereafter founded a women's clothing store in Brownsville, Brooklyn, joined the local anarchist movement, and became a prolific contributor to the Yiddish press. In 1895 he moved to Philadelphia, where he became a printer and edited Die Gegenwart, a short-lived Yiddish weekly.Шаблон:RШаблон:R[1]

He died in Brooklyn, New York on October 23, 1911.

Family

Apotheker married his wife Celia (nee Schoolman) in 1896 in Philadelphia.[1][2] They had a number of children: Engel (born 1891), Lizzy (born 1892), Anna (born 1895), Susana (born 1897), William (born 1900), and Lillian (born 1904).[3][4][5][6][7]

Selected publications

References

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