Moishe Broderzon

Moishe Broderzon (; 23 November [ O.S. 11 November] 1890 – 17 August 1956) was a Yiddish poet, theatre director, and the founder of the Łódź literary group Yung-yidish.

Personal life He was born 1890 in Moscow, but his family was among the Jews expelled in 1891. His father moved to Łódź; his mother took her children to her father's home in Nesvizh (now in Belarus). In 1900, the family was reunited in Łódź.

He became a bookkeeper and began writing short narratives in the Yiddish press in Łódź. In 1914 he issued a collection of his poems called Shvartse fliterlekh (Black Spangles). He was a founder of Yung-Yidish artists collaborative. He was a founder of the literary group Yung-yidish, which published a journal of the same name. The journal featured poetry, prose, and experimental art. His wife, Sheyne-Miryam, was an actress famed for a chasidic dance routine.

Broderzon also founded several theatres in Łódź: In 1922, with Yekhezkl-Moyshe Nayman, Yitschok Broyner, and Henech Kon he created the Yiddish Marionette Theater Khad Gadyo (Chad-gadye, Khad-gadye), and Shor habor, a variety theater. In 1924 he and Henekh Kon wrote the music for the first Yiddish opera performed in Warsaw, Dovid un Basheve (David and Bathseba), performed in Warsaw's Kaminski Theater; he also wrote a libretto for the opera Monish based on I. L. Peretz's epic romantic poem. an experimental theater that featured the actors Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher. He often wrote articles about Yiddish theater. They worked in the Yiddish theatre in Moscow and became Soviet citizens. He was arrested in April 1950, sentenced to ten years in prison, and sent to Siberia. After five years in a labor camp he was "rehabilitated" in September 1955 and was allowed to return to Poland in July 1956. There he was greeted by a small number of literati who had reunited after the war. He died of a heart attack in Warsaw on 17 August 1956. Moshe Broderson was buried in the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street in Warsaw. After the devastation of the grave, his daughter Anetta (born 1920) transported her father's ashes to Israel to the Kiryat Sha'ul cemetery in Tel Aviv. Posthumously, his texts were used in performances of the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw: Sure Szejndl from 1966 and The Great Win from 1972 and 1985.