David Vogel

David Vogel (Hebrew: דוד פוגל; May 15, 1891–1944) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish poet, novelist, and diarist.

Biography David Vogel was born in the town of Sataniv in the Podolia region in the Russian Pale of Settlement. The family spoke Yiddish. In 1909–1910, he arrived in Vilnius as a yeshiva student. He worked as the caretaker of a synagogue and studied Hebrew. Moving to Vienna in 1912, he spent his time sitting in cafes and teaching Hebrew to make ends meet. He accepted a job copying letters for the Zionist federation but soon quit. During World War I he was arrested as a Russian enemy alien and spent time in internment camps. Towards the end of the war, he began publishing impressionist poems.

In 1919, he married Ilka, who became ill with tuberculosis. In 1925, he settled in Paris, where he wrote prose and poetry. In 1929, he and his second wife, Ada Nadler, immigrated to Palestine, where their daughter, Tamara, was born. After spending time in Poland and Berlin, the family returned to Paris. When World War II erupted, Vogel and his daughter fled to southeastern France where Ada was recuperating in a sanatorium. He was interned as an Austrian citizen and freed in 1940 when the Nazis occupied France.

Published works Lifnei Sha'ar ha-Afel (70 poems), Vienna (1923) Le-ever ha-Dmamah (78 poems), posth. ed. Tel Aviv (1983) They All Went Out to Battle (Yiddish) In the Sanatorium (1927) Facing the Sea, Paris (1932) Married Life (1929; Menakhem Perry's version 1986) Viennese Romance (c. 1937-1938; posth. ed. Tel Aviv 2012) Extinguished Stations (ed. Menakhem Perry) (1990)