De Haan, Jacob Israël
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| Birthname | Jakob Israël de Haan | ||||
| born on | 31 December 1881 at 05:00 (= 05:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Smilde, Netherlands, 52n56, 6e27 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m6e27 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   09°42'   20°45 Asc. 28°28'
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Biography
Dutch teacher, lawyer, literary writer and poet who came to Palestine in 1919 as a correspondent for the Algemeen Handelsblad.
He was the son of the orthodox Jewish hazzan Izak de Haan (25 September 1839, Edam - 1 May 1924, Amsterdam), merchant, grocer and religious teacher and his second wife Betje Rubens (20 December 1852, Zutphen - 6 October 1912, Zaandam). The rebbe got 16 children, of whom nine died before age one. His one year minus a day elder sister, was the writer Carry van Bruggen (1-1-1881), who described their youth in Zaandam (1885) in "Het huisje aan de sloot" (1921). About her brother's struggle with religion she wrote the novel "De verlatene" (1909, the deserted one). Jacob was the favourite of his mother Betje (Elisabeth), was fond of children, but often struggled with his father Isaac. The relation improved when he settled in Amsterdam.
He studied for teacher in Haarlem (-1900). While still living in his father house, he broke with the Jewish religion and became a SDAP member and socialistic activist. In 1899 he became a school master in Amsterdam. In 1900 he published his first poetry in De Gids and became friends with Frederik van Eeden and Albert Verwey. His first letter to Van Eeden was written March 1899. He also studied in the evening hours for the Gymnasium (1903) and after that he studied Law. In 1909 he became a jurist and on 1 February 1916 he dissertated in Law.
In June 1904, he published his controversial novel "Pijpelijntjes" (Lines from De Pijp), which pretends to be a thinly veiled version of his own gay life as the main character "Joop" with the physician and writer "Sam" (Aletrino) in Amsterdam's "Pijp" working-class district. The homo-eroticism of the book, shocking in the early 20th century, led to his dismissal from his teaching job and social-democratic political circles. The lector in criminal anthropology and writer of "Hermaphrodisie en uranisme" (1908), Arnold Aletrino (1 April 1858, A'dam - 16 Jan 1916, Montreux) and his fiancée Johanna van Maarseveen, bought almost the entire print run of the book, to keep a lid on the scandal.
De Haan recognised his homosexual affinity - then called Uranism, after the in 1903 published book of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, "Ursachen und Wesen des Uranismus" - but felt guilty about it, as he saw homosexuality as a born with sin. In Augustus 1904 he published an anonymised version of the book, which was not explicitly dedicated to Aletrino. The first version became a wanted collectors item. Meanwhile, he struggled for rehabilitation in de SDAP party and the paper Zondagsblad, for which De Haan wrote the children's column since April 1903. In 1904, he wrote a defence and appealed on artistic liberty, that in February 1905 was published.
On 28 March 1907 he married in Amsterdam the Protestant Johanna Belia Cornelia Jacoba van Maarseveen (15 December 1872 - 25 March 1946), a female physician since 2 July 1898. The relation was said to be a platonic "mariage de raison". Johanna was a municipal physician of Amsterdam, who did medical examinations on female employees. They got no children.
Around 1910, he returned to Jewish faith and started to publish Jewish poetry. In 1912 he became a member of the Zionist Mizrachi movement. His conversion resulted in the poetry bundle "Het joodsche lied" (The Jewish song, Amsterdam, 1915).
January 1919 he emigrated to Palestine. He became a member of the orthodox Jewish Baal teshuva movement, which according to the Wiki means "master of return" i.e., one who has "returned" to God. He became a lecturer in law at the Government Law school in Jerusalem in 1920. Faced with the impact of Zionism on the Palestinians, he became an anti-Zionist, publishing articles and sending memoranda to the British government. (His views were also influenced by his ultra-Orthodox belief that the Return to Zion must wait for the advent of the messiah.)
For the chief Rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis, Haredi Jewish community in Jerusalem, during the years of the British Mandate of Palestine, he went as a diplomat for peace with a proposal for Abdullah I of Jordan (February 1882, Mecca – 20 July 1951, who was like De Haan assassinated in Jerusalem).
De Haan's position became increasingly difficult and he was dismissed from his teaching position. He was murdered by a member of Haganah on 30 June 1924. This was the first political assassination among the Jews in modern Palestine.
Posthumous acknowledge
On 1 June 1952 the Dutch literary critic Garmt Stuiveling and others founded the "Genootschap Jacob Israël de Haan". On 23 September 2008 the "Stichting Jacob Israël de Haan" was erected to honour his work. Their first Jacob Israël de Haan Lecture was held on 22 October 2009 in Amsterdam. Evelien Gans published about his biographer Jaap Meijer the lecture: "Ik ben een Mensch: niets is mij vreemd gebleven. Het spiegelgevecht van Jaap Meijer met Jacob Israël de Haan" (I am a human being, nothing of me is strange. The shadow fight of his biographer Jaap Meijer with Jacob Israël de Haan). Arvo Part would call this "Spiegel in Spiegel".
Outside the Rembrandt's house on the Amsterdam Jodenbreestraat stands since 1986 a memorial to him, made by Hans 't Mannetje, that honoured him as the "Poet of the Jewish Song". It is now a "Grenspaal" (Jacobean boundary stone) marking the start of the now disappeared Amsterdam Jewish Area of which the romantic "nowhere at home" poet De Haan wrote: "Die te Amsterdam vaak zei: 'Jeruzalem' en naar Jeruzalem gedreven kwam. Hij zegt met mijmerende stem, 'Amsterdam, Amsterdam…' ". He was shot down shortly before his intended return to Amsterdam.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Mannoury, Gerrit (born 17 May 1867). Notes: Significs
- associate relationship with Zweig, Arnold (born 10 November 1877). Notes: Zweig wrote De Vriendt kehrt heim about De Haan
- friend relationship with Dèr Mouw, Johan Andreas (born 24 July 1863). Notes: De Haan presented his work to Frederik van Eden (1918)
- friend relationship with Eeden, Frederik van (born 3 April 1860). Notes: both Significs and contributors to De Gids
- friend relationship with Herzberg, Abel (born 17 September 1893). Notes: Friends as children
- sibling relationship with Bruggen, Carry van (born 1 January 1881)
Events
- Relationship : Begin significant relationship March 1899 (First letter to Van Eeden (both becoming "Significs"))
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- Relationship : Begin significant relationship March 1899 (first letter to Van Eeden)
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- Work : Begin Major Project April 1903 (Children's column in a socialistic sunday paper)
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- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released June 1904 in Amsterdam (Pijpelijntjes. Jacob Israël de Haan, 1904)
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- Work : End Major Project June 1904 (Children's column in a socialistic sunday paper after his coming out)
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- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released August 1904 in Amsterdam (An anonymised version of the Uranian "Pijpelijntjes")
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- Relationship : Marriage 28 March 1907 in Amsterdam (Johanna Belia Cornelia Jacoba van Maarseveen, physician)
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- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1 February 1916 in Amsterdam (Dissertation: Rechtskundige significa en hare toepassing op de begrippen: "Aansprakelijk, verantwoordelijk, toerekeningsvatbaar")
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- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1921 in Amsterdam (Jerusalem)
- Death by Homicide 30 June 1924 in Jerusalem
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- Work : Gain social status 23 September 2008 ("Stichting Jacob Israël de Haan" founded)
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- Work : Gain social status 22 October 2009 in Amsterdam (first Jacob Israël de Haan Lecture)
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Source Notes
Taeger quotes Astro-Kring, B.C. Same time given by Koppejan.
Schepel explicitly quotes the Municipal Archive of Smilde in Sterrentijd 26 of 1 February 1992 for 31 December 1881 at 05:00.
Sy Scholfield forwarded birth certificate n°180: "des morgens te vijf uren" (five o'clock in the morning), thus verifying the above info.
Haan, Jacob Israel de | Personen | Joods Historisch Museum | Joods Cultureel Kwartier:
Categories
- Passions : Sexuality : Gay
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Atheist (After reading Karl Marx)
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Other Rel/Spirituality (Baalei teshuva)
- Personal : Death : Other Death (assassinated)
- Vocation : Education : Teacher (from 1900 - June 1904 (his coming out))
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Erotic
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- 1881 births
- Birthday 31 December
- Birthplace Smilde, NETH
- Sun 9 Capricorn
- Moon 20 Taurus
- Asc 28 Scorpio
- 1924 deaths
- Passions : Sexuality : Gay
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Atheist
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Other Rel/Spirituality
- Personal : Death : Other Death
- Vocation : Education : Teacher
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Erotic
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
