Friday 1 December 2017

FROYM MARGOLIS (ABDAM)

FROYM MARGOLIS (ABDAM)
            He was one of the Warsaw novelists and playwrights of the late nineteenth century, “who stood at the threshold of literature and, with a few exceptions, indeed remained stuck in that antechamber” (according to Yankev Shatski).  He was the author of the theatrical piece: Di geheymnise fon di varshever yudishe rzondtses (The secret of the Warsaw Jewish Rzondtses) (Warsaw: H. Kelter, 1882), 48 pp., which introduced a sharp antagonism between a poor tenant and the Jewish homeowner (This play is now a rare item).  A photostat of it may be found in the YIVO library in New York.  Margolis also authored a novel entitled Di gefunune elterin (The located female parent), “a novel / written by Froym Margolis / with perpetual rights to be sold given to R. Zalmen Berzinski / reprints strictly forbidden / Warsaw” (1894), 54 pp.

Sources: Dr. Y. Shatski, Geshikhte fun yidn in varshe (History of Jews in Warsaw), vol. 3 (New York: YIVO, 1953), p. 268; N. Oyslender, in Biblyografishe zamlbukh (Bibliographic collection), vol. 1 (Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk, 1933), p. 197.
Zaynvl Diamant


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