Jeremiah Hescheles

[1] His father Moshe (Moses) owned a tobacco store and was very interested in German literature, Yiddish theater, and western music; he had even traveled to the United States before 1900, though he returned to Hlyniany before long.

[7][3][8] However, when Italy passed antisemitic laws in 1938, he gave up his studies and emigrated to New York City at the invitation of his uncle, sailing from Le Havre and arriving in the United States in December.

[10][11] He was ushered onto the American klezmer music scene by fellow Galician-born fiddler Berish Katz; Hescheles even made an appearance playing violin in the Edgar G. Ulmer Yiddish talkie The Light Ahead (1939).

[13][7][14][8][15] After the war he returned to New York and to the Yiddish literary scene, writing articles, poems, and reviews for a number of publications, especially for the Tog-morgn zhurnal (which was still Der Tog when he joined it).

[2] He also published in a variety of other New York publications, including Tsukunft, Getseltn, Shriftn, Di feder, Nyu yorker vokhnblat, and co-edited the literary magazine Vayter in the 1950s.

[2] When he released his first book of poetry in 1957, Sonetn fun toyevoye lider, poemes (Sonnets of the Abyss), it received positive reviews for its originality, modern aesthetic, and the wide range of voices and topics it employed.