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Nachman Mayzel

Nachman Mayzel was a Yiddish editor and literary critic, a co-founder of the Kultur Lige cultural association.

1887 to 1966Co-founding the Kultur LigeEditing Literarishe BleterYiddish literary criticism

Occupation: editor, literary critic, writer, editing staff
Founded: Kultur Lige (1918), Yidishe Kultur

Nachman Mayzel was born in 1887 in Kyiv

Mayzel was born in 1887 in a rural home near Kyiv, to a religious and well-off Jewish family. His parents were Sarah Hannah and Israel, and his younger sister Gitl Mayzel became a literary critic. He was taught at home by private teachers until age 17.

He published his first Hebrew work in 1905 and began writing on Yiddish literature in 1909. From 1912 to 1914 he ran the Kunst Farlag publishing house in Kyiv and edited the journal Di Yidishe Velt. After World War I he helped found the Kultur Lige, a Yiddish cultural association.

He moved to Warsaw and renewed the Kultur Lige there in 1921. From 1925 to 1938 he edited the literary journal Literarishe Bleter. He wrote a book on Hayim Nahman Bialik in 1934 and visited the Land of Israel in 1936.

In December 1937 he moved to the United States, where he edited the monthly Yidishe Kultur. In 1964 he immigrated to Israel and settled at Kibbutz Alonim, where he died in 1966.