HENEKH
GLITSENSHTEYN (May 24, 1870-December 30, 1942)
He was born in Turek, near Lodz,
Poland, into a bourgeois Hassidic family.
His father was an engraver of gravestones. Until age seventeen he studied in an Orthodox
conclave and in yeshivas. He later moved
to Germany and graduated there from an art academy. He was one of the most important Jewish
painters and sculptures with worldwide renown.
From 1917 he published poetry and treatises on art in various languages,
including Yiddish and Hebrew in such serials as Idishe zamlbikher (Jewish anthologies) (Warsaw, 1917), Di tsayt (The times) in London, Hatsfira (The siren) in Warsaw, and Hadoar (The mail) in New York, among
others. In these he expressed his
experiences and memories. He died in New
York.
Sources:
A. Ribolov, in Hadoar (New York)
(January 8, 1943); Sh. Tenenboym, in Forverts
(New York) (January 6, 1943); Fraye
arbeter shtime (New York) (March 12, 1943); Keneder odler (Montreal) (January 7, 1954); A. Y. Bzizinski, Yehudim mefursamim (Famous Jews) (Tel
Aviv, 1954), pp. 92-96; Y. Leftvitsh, in Anthology
of Jewish Poetry (London, 1939), p. 460; Z. Veynper, in Yidishe kultur (New York) (April 1957).
Khayim Leyb fuks
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