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Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky ( yi, יצחק יואל לינעצקי, 1839–1915) was a
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Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky ( yi, יצחק יואל לינעצקי, 1839–1915) was a Yiddish language
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 ...
author and early Zionist. Sol Liptzin characterized him as "a master of the picturesque vitriolic phrase." iptzin, 1972, 46Life
He was raised a Hasidic Jew in Vinnytsia, Podolia (now in Ukraine), but revolted against his violent schoolteachers and cabalist father by aligning himself with the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment. His father tried to offset this development by marrying him at the age of fourteen to a twelve-year-old girl; he drew her away from Hasidism and Kabbalah, and his father forced him to divorce and remarry, this time to what Liptzin describes as "a deaf, moronic woman". Linetzky ran away toOdessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...
, Ukraine, where he acquired a secular education. Attempting to leave for Germany to continue his education, he was stopped at the border and brought back, a virtual prisoner, to Vinitza. At 23, he managed again to escape, this time to the government-sponsored rabbi
A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as '' semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form o ...
nical academy at Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...
, where he developed a close friendship with Abraham Goldfaden.
Like Abraham Goldfaden and several other Yiddish-language writers of his generation, he came to prominence in the 1860s as a writer for '' Kol Mevasser''; like several others, he had first published in its Hebrew language sister publication ''Hamelitz
''Ha-Melitz'' or ''HaMelitz'' (Hebrew: ) was the first Hebrew newspaper in the Russian Empire. It was founded by Alexander Zederbaum in Odessa in 1860.
History
''Ha-Melitz'' first appeared as a weekly, and it began to appear daily in 1886. From 18 ...
''. With Goldfaden, he was later involved in several Yiddish language newspapers, including as joint editors of the short-lived weekly ''Yisrolik'' (July 1875–February 1876) almost immediately before Goldfaden founded the first professional Yiddish theater troupe.
The pogroms following the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II of Russia
Alexander II ( rus, Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, Congress Poland, King of Poland and Gra ...
made Linetzky into an early Zionist. His 1882 booklet ''America or Israel'' aligned him with the Hovevei Zion movement, active in the Jewish colonization of Palestine
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.
Works
His semi-autobiographical picaresque novel, ''Dos Poylishe Yingl'' (''The Polish Lad''), an outright attack on the Hasidim, first appeared in installments in ''Kol Mevasser'' in 1867, and remained popular at least until the eve of World War II. Other works included a book of poems ''Der Beyzer Marshalik'' (''The Angry Master of Ceremonies'', 1879).References
*Liptzin, Sol, ''A History of Yiddish Literature'', Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, , especially 45-46.External links
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