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Peretz Hirshbein (Yiddish: פרץ הירשביין); 7 November 1880, Kleszczele, Grodno Governorate – 16 August 1948, Los Angeles) was a Yiddish-language playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director.
Author. (Often spelled Peretz Hirschbein in English sources; 1880–1948), playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director. Perets Hirshbeyn’s father operated a rural water mill outside a small town in Grodno province, where Hirshbeyn was born.
This collection contains manuscripts of plays, articles and other writings, correspondence, memoirs, photographs, theater programs, and personal materials of Yiddish playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director Peretz Hirschbein.
HIRSCHBEIN, PERETZ (1880–1948), Yiddish dramatist, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director. Born in Kleszczele, Poland, Hirschbein left home at the age of 14 to study in various yeshivot, moving first to Grodno and then to Vilna.
Peretz Hirshbein. American writer. Learn about this topic in these articles: Yiddish literature. In Yiddish literature: Yiddish theatre. Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at short avant-garde plays such as Eynzame veltn (first published in Hebrew, 1905; in Yiddish, 1906; “Solitary Worlds”) as well as more traditional dramas.
Peretz Hirshbein. 7 November 1880 – 16 August 1948. Lyricist. Sheet music to two of Hirshbein's popular songs, published in 1921: "A malekh veynt (An Angel Weeps)" and "Yamen royshn (Roaring Seas)" Di Khalyastre.
Hirschbein, Peretz (1880-1948) Administrative/Biographical History. Yiddish dramatist and novelist. Hirschbein's plays, such as *Grine felder* (Green Fields), became classics of the Yiddish theater and were translated into English, German and Hebrew.
