Abraham Nahum Stencl

Abraham Nahum Stencl (Polish: Avrom Nokhem Sztencl; Hebrew: אברהם נחום שטנצל; 1897–1983) was a Polish-born Yiddish poet.

Stencl was born in Czeladź in south-western Poland, and studied at the yeshiva in Sosnowiec, where his brother, Shlomo Sztencl, was rabbi.

A religious Jew by upbringing, he now led an extreme and spontaneous bohemian life, and became an habitué of the Romanisches Café.

[3] Stencl began to write Yiddish poetry in a pioneer modernist and expressionist style, publishing poems from 1925 and several books into the 1930s.

However, he was released and made his escape to the United Kingdom, settling in London (from 1944),[1] initially in Hampstead, but soon moving to Whitechapel.