Who is A. Vayter dating? A. Vayter partner, spouse list. Help us build our profile of A. Vayter!
Login
to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions.
Details
| Birthday |
30th June, 1878
|
| Died |
21st April, 1919
|
Yitzach Meir Devenishki (ca. 1878 – April 21, 1919), also known by his pen name A. Vayter, was a Jewish playwright, essayist, Yiddish Culture activist, and labor leader. Until about 1906, he was a leader in the Jewish Labor Party Bund; but due to policy disagreements at the 1906 Conference in Bern, Switzerland, after 1906, he devoted the rest of his life to what he termed the Yiddish Renaissance. He co-founded the Literarishe Monatshriftn (Literary Monthly Journal), first published in February 1908 in Vilnius, eight months before the Czernovitsh Conference (Yiddishist movement), being the first regularly published platform for Yiddish Literature in the world. Together with I. L. Peretz and Sholem Asch, among others, he was an early organizer of the Yiddish Theater movement: in January 1910, Peretz, together with Vayter, A. Mukdoni, and Hersh Dovid Nomberg, filled the Warsaw Philharmonic to overflowing for a “symposium” (a series of lectures given by the four speakers) about improving Yiddish theater. In 1910, he co-founded and then managed in Vilnius the most acclaimed Yiddish publishing house in the world, Kletzkin Publishers. During his short life, he also wrote plays, poetry, lyrics, stories, and essays.
