Daniel Charney (1888, Dukora,

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(now

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) – 1959, New York), was a Yiddish poet and journalist. Charney was active in

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Yiddish circles in the early 1920s. After living in Moscow,

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, and

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, he emigrated to New York in 1941. He worked for the

Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

daily ''

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'' from 1925 until his death. His brothers were author

Shmuel Niger Shmuel Niger (also Samuel Niger, pen name of Samuel Charney, 1883-1955) was a Yiddish writer, literary critic and historian and was one of the leading figures of Yiddish cultural work and Yiddishism in pre-revolution Russia. Life Shmuel Niger was ...

and labor leader and journalist Baruch Charney Vladeck.

External links

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

References

Yiddish culture in Russia Belarusian Jews Yiddish culture in the United States Belarusian journalists 1888 births 1959 deaths People from Puchavičy District Jewish American journalists Russian-Jewish culture in the United States 20th-century journalists Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States {{US-journalist-19thC-stub