Daniel Brick

Daniel Brick (23 March 1903 – 19 January 1987) was a Swedish journalist, editor, translator, public intellectual, and a leading voice in Jewish cultural life in 20th-century Sweden.

Biography Daniel Brick was born to Elias David Brick, a merchant, and Maria Klara Brick (née Burstein), Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants who had arrived in Sweden via Finland. He was the twelfth of thirteen siblings. sister of his close collaborator and fellow translator Josef Riwkin. and served as its editor-in-chief until 1979.

Work as Translator During the 1920s and 1930s, Brick translated a number of works from Russian, Yiddish, and Czech into Swedish—often in collaboration with others.