AVROM
LEBENSART (January 11, 1880-February 11, 1909)
He was born in Stanislav
(Stanislavov), eastern Galicia, into a rabbinical family. In his youth he joined the Zionist
movement. He was among the first
contributors to the Yiddish and Hebrew press in Galicia. He published poetry, stories, translations of
German lyrical poetry, and articles—among them the series “Poezye fun talmud”
(Poetry from the Talmud)—in: Lemberger
togblat (Lemberg daily newspaper) and Nayer
lemberger togblat (New Lemberg newspaper)—in Lemberg; Der yudisher veker (The Jewish alarm) and Di naye tsayt (The new times) in Stanislav (1905); and in the
Hebrew-language Haet (The times), Hamefatse (The compensator), Luaḥ ḥermon
(Mt. Hermon calendar),
and Hayarden (The garden)—in Lemberg;
among others. His drama Almones (Widows) was staged in the
Yiddish theaters of Galicia. A portion
of his Hebrew essays—Kitve avraham
lebensart (The writings of Abraham Lebensart)—were published after his
death (Stanislav, 1912), 80 pp. He also
wrote under the pen name “Derekh erets.”
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Psevdonimen in der
yidisher literatur (Pseudonyms in Yiddish literature) (Vilna, 1939), p. 22
(YIVO archives, New York); Gershon Bader, Medina veḥakhameha (The state and its sages) (New York, 1934), p. 128; N. M.
Gelber, Toldot hatenua hatsiyonit
begalitsiya (History of the Zionist movement in Galicia) (Jerusalem, 1958),
p. 440.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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