József Kiss (poet)

[1] Kiss was forced to give up his studies and subsequently spent several years as an itinerant Hebrew teacher, in the cities of the Great Hungarian Plain.

He published the volume privately, as Zsidó dalok (Jewish Poems); however, it failed to gain notice.

His first success came in 1875 with his long ballad-poem, Simon Judit [hu], which was presented at a meeting of the Kisfaludy Society by Ferenc Toldy.

Kiss also translated many of the Psalms into modern language with a contemporary perspective; he had to publish these himself due to dogmatic criticisms.

When the company failed in 1889, he returned to his editing work and, in 1890, created The Week [hu], a social and literary bulletin.