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Morris Winchevsky was born on August 9, 1856, in Yanovo, Lithuania, the son of Sissel Novachovitch.
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Morris Winchevsky was born on August 9, 1856, in Yanovo, Lithuania, the son of Sissel Novachovitch.
As a child he moved with his family to Kovno, where he received a thorough Hebrew education and also attended the Russian government school. In 1870 he went to Wilna ostensibly to prepare himself for entrance into the rabbinical seminary, but instead improved his secular education, acquiring also a good knowledge of German. At this period he was already composing poems in Russian and Hebrew.
Instead of entering the seminary he accepted a position in a commercial firm in Kovno. Sent by his firm to the city of Oryol (Central Russia) in 1875, he became acquainted with the Russian radical and socialist literature of the time. When in 1877 his firm transferred him to Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), he began to take an active part in socialist propaganda, the Russian-Jewish student colony and the growth of the Socialist party there providing a fertile field. He founded a Hebrew monthly, Asefath hakhamim, as a supplement to M. L. Rodkinson's Ha-kol for the dissemination of views on social questions. His Hebrew writings were mostly signed even in later years under the pen-name Ben-Nez. Upon the promulgation by the Prussian government in 1879 of the Sozialistengesetz he was arrested and spent several months in prison.
Expelled from Prussia, he went to Denmark but was again arrested in Copenhagen and released only if he would leave the country.
After a brief period in Paris, he went to London. Joining the Communist Workers' Educational Society in London which had been founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Winchevsky began his propagandist work among the immigrant Jewish masses of the laboring classes, employing Yiddish, their mother-tongue, as his medium. Due recognition has been accorded him as the pioneer of the Yiddish socialist press and literature. In 1884 he founded the first Yiddish socialist periodical, Der Polischer Yidel, and was also the author of the first brochure on socialism in Yiddish, entitled Yehi or (1884). He was one of the founders and the chief contributor to the Arbeiter-Freund.
In 1894 he emigrated to America to take over the editorship of Emeth, a weekly family paper devoted to literature and culture. With the founding of the Yiddish daily, Forward, in 1897, he became its most representative contributor. He was also associated with many other periodicals in the rapidly growing Yiddish socialist press in the United States, and was at one time editor of the Yiddish monthly, Zukunft. He also occupies a high place in Yiddish literature as poet and writer. Although he frequently depicts Jewish life in his writings, it is characteristic of him that the Jew is but an accident of his theme. The language is Yiddish; everything else is universal. The freeing of society from the yoke of oppression is the burden of his songs. His poems, heartfelt, touching, with a true lyric quality, present the dark and sordid aspects of the life of the laborer. His socialistic bias is pronounced, but the pictures he portrays are true to life, though somewhat cold in coloring. As a man of high culture, conversant with the literatures of Russia, France, Germany, England, and America, he followed closely all the rules of prosody and poetic composition. Many of his poems of labor and struggle have been sung and recited not only in England and America but later also in Soviet Russia, because of the deep love and sympathy they display for the worker and the exploited.
When in 1924 he traveled throughout Russia as a guest of the Soviet government he was everywhere acclaimed, and a collection of his proletarian poems, Kamps-Gesangen, was published in Minsk in his honor. He was equally effective in his prose. His Yiddish style is smooth, idiomatic, and carefully balanced. Particularly fascinating were his epigrams, his philosophical reflections, and the satirical sketches which he ascribes to the Meshugener philosoph. He also translated into Yiddish a number of works from European authors, including Ibsen, Korolenko, and Victor Hugo. A revised edition of his collected works in ten volumes was published in New York, 1927 - 1928, under the editorship of Kalman Marmor.
Morris Winchevsky died on March 18, 1932, in New York.
Morris Winchevsky was an outstanding poet and socialist leader, who is well known for his role in the development of Yiddish poetry. A collection of his proletarian poems, Kamps-Gesangen, was published in Minsk in his honor. A "secular humanist" Jewish Sunday school in Toronto, Ontario was named after Winchevsky. The Morris Winchevsky School (founded in 1928) was also named after him.
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Morris Winchevsky was a member of the Proletarian Poets, an association formed with Winchevsky, Morris Rosenfeld, David Edelstadt and Joseph Bovshover.
