NAKHMEN
VINER (NACHMAN WIENER) (b. December 17, 1875)
He was born in Ozorkov (Ozorków),
near Lodz, Poland, into a poor family. He
studied in religious primary school. In
his youth he became a weaver. Over the
years 1902-1906, he was active in the Polish Socialist Party (PPS [Polska Partia Socjalistyczna]) in Lodz. In 1907 he moved to the United States, and he
became a weaver in Paterson, New Jersey, where he was later active in the
I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World) and in an “Independent Branch of
the Workmen’s Circle.” He began writing
poetry in 1892, and from 1919 he published poems and fables in: Industryele arbayter shtime (Voice of
industrial labor), Di tsayt (The
times), Fraye arbeter shtime (Free
voice of labor), Tog (Day), and Kundes (Prankster)—in New York; Dos naye vort (The new word) in Boston; and
Patersoner shtern (Paterson star) and
Nuarker morgnsthtern (Newark morningstar);
among others. In book form: Shtraln, lider un fablen (Beams [of
light], poems and fables) (Paterson: Independent branches of Workmen’s Circle,
1924), 96 pp. He translated from English
poems by Ralph Chaplin, Joe Hill, and others—published in Der industryale arbayter (The industrial worker) in Paterson
(1919).
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; K.
Marmor, in Frayhayt (New York) (December
15, 1924).
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