Gabriela Ştefan, expert cultural projects at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, will lecture on Shtetl: Real and Imaginary. An Itzik Manger Perspective, at B'nai B'rith in Jerusalem.
In Romanian language.
Itzik Manger (30 May 1901, Czernowitz, then Austrian-Hungarian Empire, later Romania and now Ukraine - 21 February 1969, Gedera, Israel) (Yiddish: איציק מאַנגער) was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and 'master tailor' of the written word. Jew from Bucovina, Manger lived in Romania, Poland, France, England and finally Israel.
„A trickster at heart, Manger was fond of creating fictional biographies for himself and passing them off as truth. In his most famous fake biography, submitted to the editors of the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre", printed as fact, and widely believed, Manger writes that he was born in Berlin in 1900 and did not learn Yiddish until the age of fourteen."
A. A. Roback, The Story of Yiddish Literature (New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute, 1940), 329.
