Nadirs autobiography in five short
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Nadirs (Niederungen)
University of Nebraska Press
Copyright © 1988Rotbuch Verlag, BerlinAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8032-8254-4
Chapter One
THE FUNERAL SERMONAt the railway station, relatives were running alongside the puffing train. With every step they moved their raised arms and waved.
A young man was standing behind a window of the train. The glass reached up to his armpits. He was clutching a bunch of tattered white flowers to his chest. His face was rigid.
A young woman was carrying a bland child out of the railway station. The woman was a hunchback.
The train was leaving for the war.
I turned off the television.
Father was lying in a coffin in the middle of the room. The walls were covered with so many pictures that you couldn't see the wall.
In one picture, Father was half as tall as the chair he was holding onto.
He was wearing a dress and his bowed legs were all rolls of fat. His head was pear-shaped and bald.
In another pict
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Leksikon Fun Der Nayer Yidisher Literatur
Nadir, Moyshe (Moishe) (March 1885–June 8, 1943)
March 1885–June 8, 1943
MOYSHE (MOISHE) NADIR (March 1885-June 8, 1943)
The adopted name of Yitskhok Rayz, he was born in Narayev (Narayiv), eastern Galicia. His father Meyer came from Zlotshev (Złoczów), worked in business, and later became a teacher of German to a Jewish property owner. Moyshe attended religious elementary school until age twelve and studied German with his father. His father then left for the United States without the family, and in 1898 brought over his wife Khane (Hannah) with the children. They lived in New York on the Lower East Side. To support his ill wife and their fem children, he worked as a peddler of liquor. According to Zalmen Reyzen’s Leksikon (vol. 2), Nadir studied until age sixteen in English-language schools and then went to work. However, as Nadir reports in the autobiographical introduction to his book Moyde ani (I confess), bygd age fourteen
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