| LC control no. | n 86072197 |
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| LC classification | PJ5129.S6812 |
| Personal name heading | Spiegel, Isaiah, 1906-1990 |
| Variant(s) | Spiegel, Jeshajahu, 1906-1990 Shpigl, Yeshaʻyahu, 1906-1990 Spiegel, Isaie, 1906-1990 Spiegel, Yeshayahu, 1906-1990 Shpigl, Yeshaʻyah, 1906-1990 Schpigel, Schaie, 1906-1990 Shpigl, Shaye, 1906-1990 Shpigl, Yishayeh, 1906-1990 שפיגל, ישעיהו, 1906־1990 שפיגל, ישעיהו, 1906- שפיגל, ישעיהו, 1906-1989 שפיגל, שאיע, 1906-1990 |
| Associated country | Poland Israel |
| Located | Łódź (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) |
| Birth date | 1906-01-14 |
| Death date | 1990-07-14 |
| Place of birth | Łódź (Poland) |
| Place of death | Israel |
| Field of activity | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945 ) |
| Affiliation | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Poets Teachers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Yeshaʻyahu Shpigl, 1986. LC data base, 5/6/87 (hdg.: Spiegel, Jeshajahu, 1906-; usage: Isaie Spiegel) Enc. Judaica, 1971 (Spiegel, Isaiah, 1906-; Yiddish writer; b. nr. Lodz, Poland; in Israel fr. 1951) His Avraham Sutsḳeṿers lider fun Ṭogbukh, 1979: t.p. (Yeshʻayahu Shpigl [part. voc.]) t.p. verso (Yeshayahu Spiegel [in rom.]) Briṿ tsu Yeshaʻyah Shpigl, 1990. Yeshaʻyahu Shpigel, c1995: p. 4 of cover (b. 14 January 1906; d. 14 July 1990) Menṭshn in ṭhom, 1949: t.p. (Shaye Shpigl) t.p. verso (Schaie Schpigel [in rom.]) Di briḳ, 1963: t.p. (Yeshayeh Shpigl) Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature, 2002: pages 191-192 (Isaiah Spiegel, born in 1906 in Łódź, Poland. One of the most prolific and important Yiddish authors in the Łódź ghetto. Worked as a teacher of Yiddish and Yiddish literature until begin forced into the Łódź ghetto. In August 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and worked in several labor camps following the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945. A few years after the war he immigrated to Israel where he died in 1991 [sic]. Published poetry in Yiddish in Łódź beginning in 1922. Wrote fiction and poetry while in Łódź which he hid in a cellar and also took some with him to Auschwitz, where they were confisticated. After the war he retrieved what was hidden in the Łódź cellar, revised them and re-wrote from memory what he had lost. These were published in Łódź in 1947. Taught in Łódź and in Warsaw) |
| Associated language | yid |
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