YOYSEF
HERMAN (b. 1880)
He was born in Nyezhin (Nizhyn), Chernigov
region, Ukraine. He studied in religious
primary school and in a Russian school.
For a time he worked as an employee in a tobacco company, later becoming
a traveling salesman. He published
humorous sketches and satirical poetry in the Friday humor supplement of Gutmorgn (Good morning) in Odessa and Haynt (Today) in Warsaw, as well as
elsewhere. In book form: Di voyazhorn un di koynim (Commercial
voyagers and customers), a satirical poem in verse (Pyetrikov, 1909), 53 pp., describing
in a popular style of language with entertaining rhymes the bitter fate of
Jewish commercial travelers in Russia of yore.
The book contains biographical information, as well
as a poem “Tfile levoyazhorn” (Prayer for commercial traveler). Further information remains unknown.
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