'''Isaiah Spiegel''' ({{langx|he|ישעיהו שפיגל}}, {{langx|pl|Jeszajahu Szpigel}}; January 14, 1906 – July 14, 1990) was Polish and Israeli poet, writer and essayist writing in Yiddish, a Holocaust survivor (Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz II-Birkenau).<ref>[https://www.sejm-wielki.pl/b/psb.33824.1 Jeszajahu Szpigel (ID: psb.33824.1)]</ref><ref>{{ill|Rafał Żebrowski|pl}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160411190147/http://www.jhi.pl/psj/Spiegel_(Szpigel)_Izajasz Spiegel (Szpigel) Izajasz], ''Polski Słownik Judaistyczny''</ref><ref name=jer>[https://eleven.co.il/jewish-literature/in-yiddish/14900/ Шпигель Иеша‘яху], ''The Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian'', Based on the ''Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia''</ref><ref> {{lang|yi|יצחק יאנאסוביץ}} (Itzhak Yanasowicz), "ישעיהו שפיגל - המספר של הגיטו" ("Isaiah Spiegel - The Ghetto's Narrator"), {{jstor|23873028}}</ref>
Before deportation from the Łódź Ghetto he hid some writing. After the war he found the manuscripts with 16 stories, recalled more of them, and published.<ref>''Ghetto Kingdom''</ref> After World War II he worked as a teacher in Łódź and wrote short stories in Yiddish. In 1951 he emigrated to Israel, where he worked as a clerk and continued writing in Yiddish.<ref name=jer/>
He was one of the portrayed in the 1948 documentary ''{{ill|Mir Lebngeblibene|pl|My, którzy przeżyliśmy}}'' ("We, Who Survivied", {{langx|yi|מיר לעבנגעבליבענע}}) by Natan Gross, the last documentary in Poland shot completely in Yiddish.
==Books== * {{lang|yi|ישעיהו שפיגל־־פרוזה סיפורית מגיטו לודז׳ : שישה־עשר סיפורים מפוענחים על פי כתבי־יד שניצלו בצירוף מבוא וראיון עם המחבר}} ("Narrative prose from the Lodz Ghetto: Sixteen stories deciphered from surviving manuscripts, with an introduction and interview with the author") *1947: ''Małches geto''; Łódź, short stories **1998: ''Ghetto Kingdom: Tales of the Lodz Ghetto'' (translated by David H. Hirsch and Roslyn Hirsch) *1966: ''Flamen fun der erd'', Tel Aviv, novel **2022: ''Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto'' (translated from Yiddish by Julian Levinson) *1966: Shtign cum himl (''Stairway to heaven''; short stories {{langx|he|מדרגות אל השמים : רומן|Madregot el ha-shamayim : roman}}: translation from Yiddish to Hebrew)
==Awards== *1972: Itzik Manger Prize in Yiddish literature *1975: Fichman Prize for Literature and Art (issued by the World Federation of Bessarabian Jews)<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/dav/1975/06/04/01/article/25?&dliv=none&e=-------he-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1&utm_source=he.wikipedia.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=%22%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95+%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%92%D7%9C%22&utm_content=itonut הוענקו פרםים ע"ש פיכמן ] ("Fichman Prizes were Awarded"), ''Davar'', June 4, 1975</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== *The translator's introduction to ''Ghetto Kingdom'' contains an extensive biographical essay about Isaiah Spiegel<!-- I am lazy to summarize them, sorry-->
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Spiegel, Isaiah}} Category:1906 births Category:1990 deaths Category:Israeli writers Category:Jewish Polish writers Category:Yiddish-language writers Category:Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Category:Łódź Ghetto inmates Category:Writers about the Holocaust Category:Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery