Moyshe Nadir

Yitzchak Rayz (1885-1943), better known by his pen name Moyshe Nadir (Yiddish: משה נאדיר ; also transliterated "Moishe"). was an American Yiddish language writer and satirist.[1] Rayz was born in the town of Narayev, in eastern Galicia, then Austro-Hungary. He died in 1943, in Woodstock, New York.[2]

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Biography

In 1898, at the age of 13, Rayz immigrated to New York [3] and adopted the Americanized name Isaac Reiss.[4] Within a few years his work was published widely in the New York Yiddish press, under a variety of pseudonyms, including Rinnalde Rinaldine, Dilensee Mirkarosh, Der Royzenkavalir, Doctor Hotzikl, and, finally, Moishe Nadir. The name "Nadir" is a Yiddish expression meaning "here you are" or "that's for you."

Published works

Note: Publication dates here refer to English translations, not the Yiddish originals, which often predate their translations by ten to more than fifty years.

See also

References

  1. ^ Cohen, Joshua (June 1, 2007). "A Forgotten Writer’s Paradise Of Prose and Poetry"". The Jewish Daily Forward. http://www.forward.com/articles/10824/. 
  2. ^ Cohen, Joshua (June 25, 2009). "On the Other Side". Tablet. http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/7649/on-the-other-side/. 
  3. ^ Nadir, Moishe (2006). From Man to Man ("fun mentsh tsu mentsh"). Canada: Windshift Press. ISBN 0-9780056-0-0. 
  4. ^ Schechter, Joel (Summer 2010). "In a Moyshenadirish World". Jewish Currents. http://jewishcurrents.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Schechter-on-Moishe-Nadir.pdf.