About Daniel Charney
Lived 1888 – 1959 (aged 70–71). Daniel Charney was a Russian and American journalist, poet, memoirist and translator.
Daniel Charney (1888–1959) (דניאל טשאַרני), was a Yiddish poet, memoirist, and journalist.
Born in Dukora (now part of Belarus), Charney was active in Moscow Yiddish circles in the early 1920s. He worked for the Yiddish daily newspaper Der Tog from 1925 until his death in 1959.
The youngest of six siblings, he was closest to brothers Shmuel Niger, an important Yiddish literary critic, and labor leader and journalist Baruch Charney Vladeck.
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Who was Daniel Charney?
Yiddish journalist (1888–1959)
When was Daniel Charney born?
Daniel Charney was born in 1888 in Dukora.
When did Daniel Charney die?
Daniel Charney died in 1959 in New York City.
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Daniel Charney was a journalist, poet, memoirist and translator.
What nationality was Daniel Charney?
Daniel Charney was Russian and American.
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