YISROEL-KHAYIM (CHARLES S.) KLINGER

YISROEL-KHAYIM (CHARLES S.) KLINGER (b. October 6, 1908)

            The author of short stories, he was born in Premishlan (Przemyślany), Galicia.  He studied in Paris.  During WWII he was interned in the Miranda concentration camp in Spain.  After the war he settled in London.  He began writing in 1927 for the Polish-Jewish Chwila (Moment) and in 1933 in Lemberger togblat (Lemberg daily newspaper).  He co-edited Loshn un lebn (Language and life) in London, and he edited the periodical Likht un shotn (Light and shadow) in Paris (1938-1939), Di fraye yidishe tribune (The free Jewish tribune) in London (1943-1948), Yidish shriftn (Yiddish writings) in London (1955/1956), the anthology 100 yor yidish teater (One hundred years of the Yiddish theater) (London: Jewish Cultural Society, 1962, 56 pp.), and Yidishkeyt, peryodishe shrift far literatur, kunst un yidisher problematik (Judaism, a periodical for literature, art, and Jewish issues) in London (1977).  In book form: Yidn un yidishkeyt amol un haynt (Jews and Judaism then and now) (Paris, 1944); Af galitsishe felder, dertseylungen (On Galician fields, stories) (Paris: Fraye horizontn, 1950), 77 pp.; Der tsadek fun miranda, dertseylungen (The sage of Miranda, stories) (London: Yidishkeyt, 1971), 197 pp.

Sources: Yekhezkl Kornhendler, in Di prese (Buenos Aires) (July 1, 1971); Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York); Leonard Prager, A Bibliography of Yiddish Periodicals in Great Britain (1867-1962) (Cincinnati, 1969).

Yekhezkl Lifshits

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 487.]