Maurycy Szymel

Maurice Szymel (Mosze Schimel) pseud. "Jerzy Sorkin" (born December 18, 1903 in Lviv, died 1942 in the Janów camp in Lviv) - Jewish poet and journalist, wrote in Yiddish and Polish, associated with the newspaper "Chwila".

He graduated from a Lviv male gymnasium. He made his debut in 1925 in the Lwów newspaper, "The Moment"; It appeared in Polish, and published in her poems many Jewish poets, among others. Juliusz Wit, Karol Dresdner, Anda Eker, Stefan Pomer, Artur Lauterbach, Daniel Ihr and Roman Brandstaetter. In the second half of 1930 he moved to Warsaw, where he began his studies at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw. He lived in poverty, living with the writing of poems and the publication of short texts in Cracow's "Nowy Dziennik" and the Warsaw periodicals "Nasz Przegląd", "Opinia", "Reading", "Ster", "Literary Voice", "Gazeta Warszawska" . Until 1939 he published three volumes of poems Return to Home (1931), Violin suburbs (1932) and Lyrical Evening (1935). In his poems he referred to history, biblical themes, family memories, Jewish life, Jewish-Polish relations, and eroticism. After 1936 he translated the texts from Polish into Yiddish, became a bilingual poet. He published in "Hajnt", "Globus" and "Szriftn". After 1938, taken over by the increasing Nazism, he began to frequently talk about the subject in his works. After the outbreak of World War II he went to Lviv where he published his poems in newspapers published by the Russians. After entering the German army he worked in the office of the Judenrat. He died in the Janów camp in 1942.

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