DOVID
HORNZON (DAVID HORNZOHN) (b. 1898)
He was born in the old city of
Jerusalem, into a family that hailed from Poland. At age thirteen he was already working as a
purse-maker, later in a bookbindery. During
WWI he was in Egypt, returning afterward to Jerusalem where he converted to
Christianity and lived in a community of local missionaries. A short time later, he returned to Judaism
and wrote in Yiddish: Zikhroynes fun a
bal tshuve (Memoirs of a penitent), vol. 1 (Jerusalem, August 1934), 160
pp. In this book, he described how he
was fooled by the missionaries, and in the final chapter he also had complaints
about Jewish writers who had not helped him publish the book. As the author explains, he also composed
stories in Yiddish.
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