Isaiah Spiegel


Isaiah Spiegel was Polish and Israeli poet, writer and essayist writing in Yiddish, a Holocaust survivor.
Before deportation from the Łódź Ghetto he hid some writing. After the war he found the manuscripts with 16 stories, recalled more of them, and published.
After World War II he worked as a teacher in Łódź and wrote short stories in Yiddish. In 1951 he emigrated to Israel, where he worked as a clerk and continued writing in Yiddish.
He was one of the portrayed in the 1948 documentary by Natan Gross, the last documentary in Poland shot completely in Yiddish.

Books

  • ישעיהו שפיגל־־פרוזה סיפורית מגיטו לודז׳ : שישה־עשר סיפורים מפוענחים על פי כתבי־יד שניצלו בצירוף מבוא וראיון עם המחבר
  • 1947: Małches geto; Łódź, short stories
  • *1998: Ghetto Kingdom: Tales of the Lodz Ghetto
  • 1966: Flamen fun der erd, Tel Aviv, novel
  • *2022: Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto
  • 1966: Shtign cum himl

Awards