Schmitz, Siegfried
December 27, 1886–
He was a German Jewish journalist, born in Neititschen, Moravia. He wrote a great deal in German Jewish journals about Yiddish literature, Jewish folklore, and the like.
From 1910 he translated a series of works from Yiddish into German, mostly with the Vienna publishing house of R. Löwit:
Y. L. Perets, Die Goldene Kette (The Golden Chain [original Di Goldene Keyt]) (1918, 1923);
In Fesseln (Detained [original: In Polish af der Keyt (Detained in the Synagogue Anteroom)] (1919, 1923);
Aus dieser und jener Welt (From This and the Other World), selected stories (1919);
L. Shapiro, Die Stadt der Toten und andere Erzählungen (The City of the Dead and Other Stories) (Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1922);
Sholem-Aleichem, Menachem Mendel (Menakhem-mendl) (1922);
Sholem-Aleichem, Marienbad (Marienbad) (1923);
Sholem Asch, Onkel Moses (Uncle Moses [original: Onkl mozes]) (1926); Asch, Die Mutter (The Mother [original: Di Muter]) (1928);
Asch, Chaim Lederers Rückkehr (Khayim Lederer’s Return [original: Khayem Lederers Tsurikkumen]) (193?);
Yoysef Opatoshu, Der letzte Waldjude (Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1928);
Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Der Klepper (Di Klyatshe [The Nag]);
Dovid Ignatov, Im talkessel (In Keslgrub [In the Crucible]); and others as well.
With M. Weiner, he published Sippurim (Stories), a collected of Yiddish legends (Berlin, 1926, 1927); and with M. Präger; he revised Jüdische Schwänke (Jewish Stories) (1928).
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.