Peretz Hirschbein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peretz Hirschbein

Yiddish writer

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1880

Place of Birth: Gmina Kleszczele, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1948

Profession: writer, author, journalist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Peretz Hirshbein (7 November 1880, Melnik, Kleszczele, Grodno Governorate – 16 August 1948, Los Angeles) was a Yiddish-language playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director.
Because his work focused more on mood than plot, he became known as "the Yiddish Maeterlinck".
His work as a playwright and through his own short-lived but influential troupe, laid much of the groundwork for the second golden age of Yiddish theater that began shortly after the end of World War I.
The dialogue of his plays is consistently vivid, terse, and naturalistic.
Unusually for a Yiddish playwright, most of his works have pastoral settings: he had grown up the son of a miller, and made several attempts at farming.