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  • MediaDB / «Polish Jews. Stories, essays, paintings" Leo Herzberg-Frenkel: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 1868 / Herzberg-Frenkel, Leo - writer, b. in Brody in 1827. In his youth he visited Bessarabia, which later gave him very rich material for describing the life of Russian Jews. His literary activity G.-F. began as a correspondent for many Austrian liberal newspapers, as well as for Wertheim's Jahrbücher für Israeliten. When the revolution of 1848 was suppressed, he, a former non-commissioned officer of the National Guard and correspondent of revolutionary organs, had to suffer, but in 1850 he was already able to openly settle in Vienna and took part in Safir's Humorist, as well as in the Oesterreichischer Lloyd. Returning to Brody, G.-F. released his "Louisiana Hermit", which attracted everyone's attention; however, a number of his feuilletons entitled “Pictures from the life of Russia and Bessarabia” should be placed much higher than the named short story. The stories and stories published in newspapers were published as a separate book called “Polnische Juden”, and this book met with an unusually sympathetic reception: in a few years it went through 3 editions and was translated into Russian, Polish, Hebrew, French and English. His historical and ethnographic sketch “Die Juden in Galizien” is included in the famous collective work “Oesterreich-Ungarn in Wort und Bild”, published under the patronage of the Austrian Archduke Rudolf. Works of G.-F. on statistics and economics were published by the city of Brody in eight volumes and are considered one of the good sources for the study of Galicia. In addition to the above works, G.-F. wrote more stories: “Geheime Wege”, 1895 and “Eine Emigration», 1898.