Di Chaliastre

Poets from the group in Warsaw. From the left: Mendel Elkin [ru], Peretz Hirschbein, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Peretz Markish, Melech Ravitch, Israel Joshua Singer (1922)

Di Chaliastre or Khalyastre (די כאַליאַסטרע, from Polish "halastra" - gang[1]) was a Jewish avant-garde[2] expressionist-futuristic[3] group of poets, who worked in Warsaw between 1919 and 1924. The poets wrote in Yiddish and published a namesake magazine.[4]

The name of the group comes from the term Hillel Zeitlin used for them in the newspaper Der Moment [pl]. The group was formed around 1922 around M. Weichert's literary and artistic monthly magazine "Ringen", published since 1921. Its main contributors were Peretz Markish, Melech Ravitch and Uri Zvi Greenberg.

Poets Issac Kipnis [ru], Moisei Khashevatsky [ru], and David Hofstein also became a part of the group.[4]

  1. ^ Светлана Амосова 2019.
  2. ^ Piotr Kieżun, Edyta Zbąska. "Kiedy Warszawa nadawała ton Berlinowi. O warszawskiej awangardzie jidysz w latach 20. i grupie "Hałastra"" (in Polish).
  3. ^ Tarnowska 2003.
  4. ^ a b Seth L. Wolitz. "Khalyastre". The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.