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Lazarus Leonard Aaronson (18 February 1895 – 9 December 1966), often published as L. Aaronson, was a British poet and lecturer in economics. He was the son of impoverished Orthodox Jewish parents who had immigrated to the East End of London from the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe. As a young man, he belonged to a group of Jewish friends today know as the Whitechapel Boys, many of whom later in life reached fame as writers and artist. In his twenties Aaronson converted to Christianity and a large part of his poetry focused on his conversion and spiritual identity as a Jew and an Anglican. In total he published three collections of poetry – ''Christ in the Synagogue'' (1930), ''Poems'' (1933), and ''The Homeward Journey and Other Poems'' (1946) – and although he never achieved widespread recognition he gained a cult following of dedicated readers. Though less radical in his use of language, he has been compared to his more renowned Whitechapel friend Isaac Rosenberg in terms of diction and verbal energy. Aaronson's poetry is characterised as more post-Georgian than modernistic, and reviewers have traced influences from both the English poet John Keats and the Hebrew poets Shaul Tchernichovsky and Zalman Shneur in his writings. Aaronson lived almost his whole life in London and spent most of his working life as a lecturer in economics at the City of London College. He married three times and had a son by his third wife. His first wife was the actress Lydia Sherwood. Upon retiring he moved to to Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where he died from heart failure and coronary heart disease on 9 December 1966 at the age of 71. His poetry was not widely publicised, and he left many unpublished poems at his death. ==Life== Aaronson was born on 18 February 1895 at 34 Great Pearl Street, Spitalfields in the East End of London to impoverished Orthodox Jewish parents who had immigrated from Vilna in the Pale of Settlement. His father was Louis Aaronson, a master bootmaker, and his mother was Sarah Aaronson, ''née'' Kowalski. The young Aaronson attended Whitechapel City Boys' School and then gained a scholarship to attend Hackney Downs grammar school.〔 His father emigrated to New York in 1905, and in 1912, everyone in the family followed, except the 17-year old Lazarus who remained in London. From then on he lived with the family of Joseph Posener at 292 Commercial Road in the East End. The area was then a hub of the Jewish diaspora, and at the turn of the 20th century, a quarter of its population were Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. Growing up in the East End, Aaronson was part of a group of friends today referred to as the Whitechapel Boys, all of whom were children of Jewish immigrants and shared literary and artistic ambitions. Others in the group who, like Aaronson, later achieved distinction included John Rodker, Isaac Rosenberg, Joseph Leftwich, Samuel Winsten, Clara Birnberg, David Bomberg, and the brothers Abraham and Joseph Fineberg. Aaronson was also involved in the Young Socialist League, where he and other Whitechapel Boys helped organise educational meetings on modern art and radical politics. Having been diagnosed with tuberculosis and diabetes, Aaronson did not serve in the military during the First World War. Between 1913 and 1915 and again between 1926 and 1928 he studied economics at the London School of Economics, but he never completed his degree. Aaronson remained a committed socialist throughout adulthood. He was married three times; first to the actress Lydia Sherwood (1906–1989) between 1924 and 1931. Aaronson filed for divorce on grounds of her adultery with the theatre producer Theodore Komisarjevsky, and the suit was undefended. His second marriage, which occurred on 9 July 1938, to Dorothy Beatrice Lewer (1915–2005), also ended in divorce. She subsequently married the geriatrician Oscar Olbrich. On 14 January 1950, Aaronson married Margaret Olive Ireson (1920–1981), with whom he had one son, David (born 1953).〔 Around 1934 he began working as a lecturer in economics at the City of London College. Upon his retirement from the university in 1958/59, Aaronson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his more than twenty-five years of service.〔 He then moved with his family from London to Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where he later died from heart failure and coronary heart disease on 9 December 1966 at the age of 71. He was buried in the Westfield Road Cemetery, Harpenden.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lazarus Aaronson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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