Abraham Zinger

Abraham Zinger (; 1864, Kapulye – 1920, Babroysk) was a Russian-Jewish author, feuilletonist, and translator.

Biography

Zinger was born in Kapulye, Minsk Governorate. Orphaned at the age of 10, he studied at Minsk, Slutsk, Pinsk, Nyasvizh, Nesvizh, and Mir, Belarus, Mir, meanwhile encountering Haskalah literature.

He worked as a Hebrew language, Hebrew teacher in Warsaw from 1888, but fled to his hometown during the Great Retreat (Russian), Russian withdrawal from Poland in 1915. Amid the pogroms following Operation Minsk, he attempted in 1920 to return to Warsaw, but contracted typhus on the way there. He succumbed to the disease in Bobruisk.

Work

In about 1885, Zinger began writing stories and articles for Hebrew periodicals like ''Ha-Melitz'', ''Ha-Asif'', and '. As a literary criticism, literary critic, he Book review, reviewed the Hebrew poetry of I. L. Peretz, among other writers. He later also contributed to the Yiddish language, Yiddish journals ', ', and '.

Under the title ''Ohel Tom'', he published in 1896 a Hebrew translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly''. David Ben-Gurion would later cite Zinger's translation as influential on his ideological development.

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1864 births
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