What a Decade! 1914–1924

Daniel Charney (Tsharni) was born in Dukor, Belorussia. In 1902, he followed his older brothers Shmuel Niger and Borekh Tsharni to Minsk and Vilna, where he began publishing poetry and short stories. After 1914, Charney lived in Petrograd and Moscow. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he had a leadership role within the Moscow Circle of Yiddish Writers and Artists and was the editor of a number of Soviet Yiddish periodicals. In the 1920s, he lived in Moscow and Berlin, and continued to contribute to both Soviet and international Yiddish literature and culture. Charney left Germany in 1934 and, after wandering through Europe, arrived in the United States in 1941, where he continued his organizational and creative work.