Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-08-19

his production OF Polly Preefrd
lie Is Osip Dymov, originally o. l. Pereman d. 1879
whose abilities dramatist and director have gained
him little fame In this country His hc Bronx Tx
press easily identities him OF the most significant
and imaginative dramatists residing in the United
States.
In Russia, Dymov is clnssed among the minor novel
lists and shortstory writer's; his style is evidently
imitation Of the AustrianJewis sylist Peter Alter
berg He too has found inspiration for his
In Jewish life which Mirsky characterzes drearily
realistic with psychological and theological preensionsr
The death of Akin yoynsky CA. L. Flekser
b. 1856, brings remembrance the checkered OF
that critic His literary beliefs strangely concded with
his phases Of adherence to and rejection OF his Jewish
faith. At early age. he attacked the Radical influence
in Russian literature AT that time he also forsook Jud
ism and becape convert to Christianity. 1t is said OF
him that time he entered synngog in order to de-
feni his enhancement OF Christianity. Mirsky crrdits
voynsky with great amount Of courage pointing
that he struck valiant blows In the of the
emancipation Of Russian literature for which he was
exiled from Russian literary circles for long time
Late in life Nolynsky changed his point OF view, and
concurreptiy, he rcconfesscd Judaism. He buried in
Jewish cemetery His critical monographs Leonardo
da vincT and rRcmbrand his most notable pic.ps
Of writing. The Soviet Government ordered the last
essay reprinted ut Government expense.
The Great Russian Mystic
Deriving his ide,is from Dosoeysky, and also in q
large measure from the Old Testament Leo Shestov is
usnizcd hc greatest modern Russian mystic.
second to Nasil Rozanov Born in kev in 1896 of fam
ly wealthy Jewish merchants, Leo Isakoyich Schwaz
early began studying law, but later ATTRACTED
philosophy and literature He OF the first
attack the rationasm Of that fellow jew Gcorg Brapdcs
declaring that the Danish critic greatly Oycr-rxte
in his volume. shakespeare And His Critic Brandes
which appeared in 1S!,S.
Although shesov was one Russias major religious
philosophers his general popularity Is due to his great
powers ironist, and his ability in biting sarcasm.
He great sophist. being extremely capable of refu
ing logic and by the same weapons of logic and
OF his prose Mrsky =" it is the tidiest
elegant the concentrated In short, the
classical prose in the whole of modern Russian literature
Other Famous Jews
OF those Jews who have attained celebrity in
Russian literature the popular today is undoubtedly
Leon Trozky. And although he is referred nothing
spirited and clever pamphletecr he stands
: the commentator prescnt-day Russian
affairs Mrsky attacks his style slovenly and journal
tc merely because presume, it is "dsfgured by the
usual Bolshevk jargon."
\ hurried mention of the following is necessary:
Osp Emilcvch Mnndelstum Ga lew by birth who after
wards Mennonite, considered the cultured
modern Russian poet Victor Shklovsky born in 1Sl.
considered the conspicuous of the so-caed formal
prose writer's, who has been successful in turning
literature from its excessively ornamental style
the tendency prose Iya Daydovic Erenburc.
Russia's best seller" aud l. Babel who, Mirsky says.
bids fair eclipse all the other postReyoluionary novel
sts" some of his best work with stories
of southcrn-Iiussian Jewish life. Martin Golde).
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