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Hersh Dovid Nomberg

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Nationality
  
Polish,

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Born
  
14 April 1876
Mszczonów, Poland

Other names
  
Hersz Dawid Nomberg, Hirsch David Nomberg

Occupation
  
Writer, journalist, and essayist

Died
  
21 November 1927, Otwock, Poland

Other name
  
Hersz Dawid Nomberg, Hirsch David Nomberg

Hersh Dovid Nomberg (Yiddish: הערש דוד נאָמבערג‎), also written Hersh David Nomberg (14 April 1876 – 21 November 1927), was a Polish-Jewish writer, journalist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.

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Biography

Born in the Polish town of Mszczonów, near Warsaw, he grew up in a Hasidic background, before moving to Warsaw to pursue a career as a writer. Under the influence of his mentor I. L. Peretz he began writing in Yiddish as well as Hebrew. He played an important role in the Czernowitz Conference in 1908. Nomberg also had a brief career as a politician he served as a delegate in the Sejm for the Folkspartei.

Works

The following is a partial list of Nombergs's works.

  • Happiness (fairy tale, 1900)
  • Fliglman (short story, 1903)
  • Dos shpil in libe (short story, 1907)
  • Shvayg shvester!(short story, 1907)
  • a kursistke (novella, 1907)
  • "Tsvishn berg" (short story, 1908)

    • Translations into English

  • In the Mountains in No Star Too Beautiful, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Norton: New York, 2002. ISBN 0-393-05190-0.
  • Friends in Have I Got a Story for You, translated by Seymour Levitan. Norton: New York, 2016. ISBN 0-393-06270-8

    • References

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