SOLOMON DEMBITSER (SALAMON DEMBITZER) (December
29, 1888-October 11, 1964)
He was born in Cracow, grandson of
the rabbi of Cracow, R. Khayim-Nosn (Chaim Nathan) Dembitser. He authored collections of poetry (Yiddish in
Roman transcription)[1]: Lebns klangen, zhargon gedikhte (Sounds of life, poems in Yiddish)
(Cassel, 1907), 64 pp.; Farloyrene veltn
(Lost worlds) (Berlin, 1910), 32 pp.; Fun
mayne teg, zhargon-gedikhte (From my days, poems in Yiddish) (Frankfurt,
1911); Volkn, zhargon-gedikhte (Cloud,
poems in Yiddish) (Antwerp, 1912), 48 pp.; Shvartse
bleter (Black pages) (Berlin, 1913), 63 pp.; Bummler und bettler (Loafer and beggar), a novel in German (Berlin,
1930), 177 pp. He also wrote in Dutch. He was the publisher in German of Der Osten (The east), and he contributed
to Vorwaerts (Forward) in
Berlin. Published in the Jewish alphabet
was his collection Farklungene tsaytn
(Resonant times) (Berlin, 1924), 69 pp.
From 1942 he was living in the United States. In 1955 he published a book, entitled Adventure in Prague and Other Stories
(Sydney), 77 pp.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; Y.
Sheyd, in In ondenk (Chile) (April
1954); “Fun vokh tsu vokh” (From week to week), Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (June 26, 1931).
[1] Translator’s note. The following five titles are
given in proper YIVO transcription. In
the originals, they read: Lebens-Klangen:
Jargon-Gedichte, Verloirene Welten:
Jargongedichte, Vun meine Täg: Jargongedichte,
Wolken, and Schwarze Blätter.
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