Hugo Zuckermann

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Hugo Zuckermann (1881-05-15–1914) was a Jewish-Austrian poet and zionist.

Hugo Zuckermann was born 1881-05-15 in Cheb. 1909 he founded, together with writer Oskar Rosenfeld, the Jüdische Bühne, the first Jewish theater in Vienna. Later he became a lawyer in Merano. He fell early in the First World War after having written the very popular "Reiterlied". His work, published in one volume with an introduction by Otto Abeles in 1915, consists of poems including some translations from the Bible (Shir Hashirim, psalms). He also translated poems by Isaac Leib Peretz, Sholem Asch, Abraham Reisen, S. Schneir and other Yiddish authors.

[edit] Literature

  • Meier M. Reschke, Hugo Zuckermann: A Great Jewish Leader, Vantage Pr 1985. ISBN 0533061369
  • Hugo Zuckermann, Gedichte (edited by Otto Abeles), R. Löwit Verlag Wien 1915.
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