VOGEL, DAVID

(1891-1944)

Russian Hebrew poet and writer. He was born in Satanov, Russia, and settled in Vienna in 1912. He suffered periods of imprisonment during World War I (to 1916) and World War II (in French detention camps, to 1941), before being arrested by the Nazis in 1944. He wrote novels as well as poetry and is regarded as an important forerunner of Hebrew modernism.