Daniel Charney

Daniel Charney (1888, Dukora, Russian Empire (now Belarus) – 1959, New York) (דניאל טשאַרני), was a Yiddish poet, memoirist, and journalist.^[1]

Charney was active in Moscow Yiddish circles in the early 1920s.^[1] He attempted immigration to New York in 1925, but was sent back due to illness. He lived in Moscow, Vilna, Warsaw, Berlin, Bern, Geneva, and Paris, and finally emigrated successfully to New York in 1941.

He suffered from severe illness his entire life, and, as his memoirs attest, spent much of his life in various sanitaria, clinics, and hospitals, including Mount Sinai Hospital and the Workmen's Circle tuberculosis sanatorium in Liberty, New York.^[2] He worked for the Yiddish daily newspaper Der Tog from 1925 until his death. ^[3]

The youngest of six siblings, he was closest to brothers Shmuel Niger, an important Yiddish literary critic, and labor leader and journalist Baruch Charney Vladeck.^[4]

External links

Daniel Charney papers at YIVO, New York
Daniel Charney digitized works at Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts

Bibliography

Mishpokhe khronik (Vilna, 1927)
Barg aroyf (memuarn) (Warsaw, 1935)
A yor tsendlik aza (memuarn) (New York, 1943)
Oyfn shvel fun yener velt: tipn, bilder, epizodn (New York, 1947)
Dukor (Toronto, 1951)
Vilna (Buenos Aires, 1951)
A litvak in Poyln (New York, 1955)
Mayne doktoyrim and A togbukh fun okupirtn Pariz (Tel Aviv, 1963)

In English

Dukor (trans. Michael Skakun), JewishGen Press (2022)

References

^ ^a ^b "Tsharni, Daniel". YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews from Eastern Europe. 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ Charney, Daniel (1947). אױפֿן שװעל פֿון יענער װעלט [On the Threshold of the Other World] (in Yiddish). New York: Marstin Press.
^ "Daniel Charney, Yiddish Author, Dies After Long Illness; Was 71". JTA. July 3, 1959. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ Fred Skolnik; Michael Berenbaum (2007). Encyclopaedia Judaica: Blu-Cof. Granite Hill Publishers. p. 580. ISBN 978-0-02-865932-9.