Leib Malach

Malach was born in Zwoleń, Russian Empire. He learned at a cheder from age seven to nine, and then at a beth midrash, until mother died when he was ten. His father, Rafael-Mendl Zaltsman, an Amshinov Hasid, abandoned him and remarried. He was then raised by his maternal grandfather, Chaim Tenenboym, a dayan. He became an assistant teacher in his hometown, and later in Radom. ==Time in Warsaw==

Malach moved to Warsaw in 1907 at the age of 13, working several odd jobs as a mirror cutter, baker, housepainter, and wallpaperer. He took an interest in writing from Yiddish newspapers and theatre at the age of 16. Hersh Dovid Nomberg helped start his writing career, beginning with the ballad Three in 1915. He took the surname Malach from his mother's first husband, and continued writing songs and ballads, before turning to novels and plays. He was published in several Yiddish newspapers in Warsaw, Łódź, and Lublin: Varshever tageblat, Haynt, Der Moment, Lodzer folksblat, Lodzer tageblat, and Lubliner togblat. He became involved in Labor Zionism and wrote the oath of their youth movement. This made him popular among Jews in Warsaw and all over Poland, and he was frequently asked to speak and present his work. Returning to Radom in 1921, he became a newspaper editor. He published two books and two children's plays in 1922 before moving to Argentina that year. ==Abroad, return, and death==

Malach's time abroad impacted much of his future work. Inspired by the story of the Maiden of Ludmir, he wrote a play Dos gorn shtibl in 1924, and later adapted it to a full play Di moyd fun ludmir. He lived in Israel from 1934 to 1935, with Labor Zionists, before returning to Paris, where he became ill and died while having an operation at the Rothschild Hospital in 1936. He is buried in the Bagneux Cemetery ==Works==

production of Mississippi in 1935, written by Malach Malach published numerous poems, plays, songs, ballads, and books: • Three (1915) • In Poland (poem, 1919) • Opfal (play, 1922) • Lidlekh (book, 1922) • Meshlekh (book, 1922) • Der zhabe-kenig (play, 1922) • Der vilder printz (play, 1922) • Dos gorn shtibl (1924) • Ibergus (1926) • Shtendik-keinmol (1926) • Leybele tentser (1927) • Shtendik--keinmol (1928) • Petronius (1928) • Der kritiker mitn sharfn oyg (1929) • ''Don Domingo's Crusade'' (1930) • Foystn (play, 1931) • Delegate Doctor Ferfl (1932) • Mississippi (play, 1935) ==See also==