Jeremiah Hescheles

Jeremiah Hescheles (, 1910–2010) was a Yiddish-language modernist poet, journalist, and Klezmer violinist. Because of his sharp memory and varied life experiences, he was an important resource for researchers of Yiddish culture and Klezmer music in the late twentieth century.

Biography Hescheles was born on 27 February 1910 in Glina, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Hlyniany, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine). (After 1918, Hlyniany became part of the Second Polish Republic.) He came from an Orthodox Jewish family. He was ushered onto the American klezmer music scene by fellow Galician-born fiddler Berish Katz; Hescheles even made an appearance playing violin in the Edgar G. Ulmer Yiddish talkie The Light Ahead (1939).

After the war he returned to New York and to the Yiddish literary scene, writing articles, poems, and reviews for a number of publications, especially for the (which was still Der Tog when he joined it). His second book, (Poems), was published in 1963. After the folded in 1971, he went into retirement, though he still made himself available to researchers of Yiddish culture.

Selected works (1957) (1963)