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. Zuckermann was born in

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. In 1907 he founded, together with writer

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and others a Jewish theatre group to play modern Yiddish dramas in the German language. The initiative lasted for one or two years. Later he became a lawyer in

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. He fell early in the

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after having written the very popular "Österreichisches Reiterlied". His work, published in one volume with an introduction by Otto Abeles in 1915, consists of poems including some translations from the Bible ('' Shir Hashirim'', psalms). He also translated poems by

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, S. Schneir and other

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authors.

Literature

* Meier M. Reschke, Hugo Zuckermann: A Great Jewish Leader, Vantage Pr., 1985. * Hugo Zuckermann, Gedichte (edited by ), R. Löwit Verlag, Wien, 1915.

External links

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Österreichisches Reiterlied
(German text)

(translated by Margarete Münsterberg) 1881 births 1914 deaths 19th-century translators 19th-century male writers Austrian male writers Translators from Yiddish Translators to German Czech Zionists Austrian Zionists People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Austrian people of Czech-Jewish descent Austro-Hungarian Jews People from Cheb 20th-century translators Austro-Hungarian military personnel killed in World War I {{Jewish-bio-stub