Israel Rabon – the wonderful child of Jewish Lodz

Abstract

The article discusses life and work of Israel Rabon, one of the major writers and creators of literary life in pre-war Lodz. It presents his most important works like Di Gas (The Street), the only one of his book translated into Polish, Bałuty (Balut) and memoirs entitled Farcejchenungen fun jor 1939 (Sketches of the year 1939) written during Nazi occupation. The article also includes Izrael Rabon’s role in Yiddish literature and his activity as an editor of literary journal “Os”.