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Edmond Fleg (1874–1963)

Autore di Why I am a Jew

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The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni129 copie
A Golden Treasure of Jewish Literature (1937) — Collaboratore — 75 copie
Shakespeare : Oeuvres complètes, tome 2 : Roméo et Juliette (1959) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni15 copie
Tevye the dairyman and other stories (1921) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni9 copie
Théâtre complet. Avant-propos d'André Gide (1938) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Fleg, Edmond
Nome legale
Flegenheimer, Edmond
Data di nascita
1874-11-26
Data di morte
1963-10-15
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Switzerland (birth)
France
Luogo di nascita
Geneva, Switzerland
Luogo di morte
Paris, France
Luogo di residenza
Paris, France
Istruzione
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Sorbonne
Attività lavorative
poet
playwright
essayist
librettist
biographer
translator
Breve biografia
Edmond Fleg was born Edmond Flegenheimer to a Jewish family in Geneva, Switzerland. His parents were Maurice Flegenheimer, a prosperous merchant, and his wife Clara Nordmann. He attended gymnasium in Geneva, then in 1892 went to study in Paris, first at the Sorbonne and then at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1899, he qualified as a teacher of the German language, but switched careers to become a playwright and theater critic. He wrote several successful plays, including Le Message (1904), La Bête (1910), and Le Trouble-fête (1913), as well as French versions of Goethe's Faust (1937) and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1938). He also wrote the libretti for Ernest Bloch's opera Macbeth (1910) and Georges Enesco's Oedipus (1936). Fleg became more and more conscious of his Jewish identity with the turmoil in France caused by the Dreyfus Affair and the pogroms in Eastern Europe. He attended the first three Zionist Congresses in Basel and was influenced by fellow author Israel Zangwill. Fleg became a highly prolific writer and editor of works on Jewish history and thought such as the influential volume of essays Anthologie juive des origines à nos jours (The Jewish Anthology). In 1928, he published his lengthy essay Pourquoi je suis juif (Why I Am a Jew). His work was interrupted by World War I, during which he served in the French Foreign Legion. He is perhaps best remembered today for his monumental verse cycle Ecoute Israël, published between 1913 and 1948.
He also wrote biographies based on his deep knowledge of Torah such as Moïse raconté par les Sages (The Life of Moses, 1928) and Salomon (The Life of Solomon, 1929). Other works, including Ma Palestine (The Land of Promise, 1932) and Nous de l'Esperance (1949), were collected in Vers le Monde qui vient (1960). He also translated books and stories by Scholem Aleichem, the Passover Haggadah, and selections from Moses Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed and from the Zohar.

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> MOÏSE RACONTÉ PAR LES SAGES, de Edmond Fleg (Albin Michel, 1997). — Digne héritier des conteurs du Talmud, de leur esprit imaginatif et de leur langage si particulier, Edmond Fleg (1874-1963) a voulu continuer à leur exemple la tradition qu’ils ont perpétuée, afin d’écrire l’histoire de Moïse telle qu’il la vécut intérieurement. Le grand écrivain juif a recueilli les paroles dispersées des sages du judaïsme pour nous les transmettre dans cette biographie légendaire. (Espaces libres)

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Fleg-Moise-Raconte-par-les-sages/458287
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