Jellinek, Oskar#
b. Brno, Czech Republic (then Bruenn), Jan. 22, 1886, d. Los Angeles (USA), Oct. 12, 1949, judge in Vienna, from 1925 free-lance writer. Wrote mainly short stories centring on topics of peasant life in Moravia. In 1938 emigrated to Czechoslovakia, 1940 to the United States, from 1943 lived in Los Angeles.
Works#
Collected novellas, 1950; Hankas Hochzeit, 1980; Raacher Silberfeier, 1988 (poetry).Literature#
K. Krejčí, O. J. Leben und Werk, 1967; A. Nowotny, Die Novellen O. J., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1972; OeBL; NDB.