Moshe Broderzon

Moshe Broderzon was born November 23, 1890. He was a Yiddish poet and theater director. A descendant of a family of wealthy merchants who were permitted to reside in Moscow, Broderzon received his early education in that city and at a Lodz commercial academy. He lived in Lodz from 1918 to 1938. Active as a journalist, poet, and writer of short plays, he founded little theaters in Lodz: Had Gadya, the first Yiddish marionette theater, Ararat, and Shor ha-Bor. He was head of the literary group Yung-Yidish and discovered many new Jewish talents for the stage. He wrote songs for children, which were frequently reprinted and set to music, and also libretti for operas, including David and Bath-Sheba (1924). His final lyrics, which appeared in 1939 with the single letter Yod as title, comprise 50 poems of 16 lines each, laden with tragic premonitions of the end of Polish Jewry in a coming world catastrophe. Broderzon returned to his native Moscow in 1939. At the time of Stalin's persecutions of Yiddish writers he was confined and remained in a Siberian work camp from 1948 to 1955. Repatriated to Poland on his liberation, he was enthusiastically acclaimed by the surviving Jews there, but collapsed and died a few weeks later while visiting Warsaw. Broderzon was a consummate master of the Yiddish tongue and of most original Yiddish rhymes. His poems combine Jewish folklore with European expressionism. His wife, the actress Sheyne Miriam Broderzon, described their years of suffering (1939-56) in Mayn Laydnsveg mit Moyshe Broderzon ("My Tragic Road with Moshe Broderzon," 1960). [taken from Encyclopedia Judaica]

	Moshe Broderzon Moshe Broderzon was born November 23, 1890. He was a Yiddish poet and theater director. A descendant of a family of wealthy merchants who were permitted to reside in Moscow, Broderzon received his early education in that city and at a Lodz commercial academy. He lived in Lodz from 1918 to 1938. Active as a journalist, poet, and writer of short plays, he founded little theaters in Lodz: Had Gadya, the first Yiddish marionette theater, Ararat, and Shor ha-Bor. He was head of the literary group Yung-Yidish and discovered many new Jewish talents for the stage. He wrote songs for children, which were frequently reprinted and set to music, and also libretti for operas, including David and Bath-Sheba (1924). His final lyrics, which appeared in 1939 with the single letter Yod as title, comprise 50 poems of 16 lines each, laden with tragic premonitions of the end of Polish Jewry in a coming world catastrophe. Broderzon returned to his native Moscow in 1939. At the time of Stalin's persecutions of Yiddish writers he was confined and remained in a Siberian work camp from 1948 to 1955. Repatriated to Poland on his liberation, he was enthusiastically acclaimed by the surviving Jews there, but collapsed and died a few weeks later while visiting Warsaw. Broderzon was a consummate master of the Yiddish tongue and of most original Yiddish rhymes. His poems combine Jewish folklore with European expressionism. His wife, the actress Sheyne Miriam Broderzon, described their years of suffering (1939-56) in Mayn Laydnsveg mit Moyshe Broderzon ("My Tragic Road with Moshe Broderzon," 1960). [taken from Encyclopedia Judaica]
Moyshe Broderzon		Moyshe Broderzon (Collection of Ann Burstyn)


Moyshe Broderzon, Sheyne-Miryem Broderzon and the actor Herts Grosbart. (Collection of Ann Burstyn) Below ~ Sketch of M. Broderzon By Arthur Szyk (1894-1951)		The founders of Yung-yidish (journal shown below): Yankl Adler, Marek Szwarc and Moyshe Broderson ~ Lodz 1919 (Collection of Tereska Torres Levin)