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BINDER Origin of surname

BINDER, BINDLER

Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name derives from an occupation, profession or trade (also connected with raw material, finished product or implements associated with that trade).

Binder and its variant Bindler could be derived either from the German word Fassbinder ("cooper") or Buchbinder ("book binder"). An old craft, bookbinding became a widespread trade among Jews, particularly after the development of printing.

Distinguished bearers of this Jewish family name include the 20th century American composer and conductor Abraham Wolf Binder.

Sașa Pană (born Alexandru Binder) (1902-1981), poet, writer and editor of avant-garde literature, born in Bucharest, Romania. He studied medicine at the Universities of Iasi and Bucharest graduating in 1927 as a military physician. He dedicated himself to literature becoming one of the leading promoters of the avant-garde movements in the Romanian literature during the first half of the 20th century. From the publication of a collection of Symbolist poems in 1926, he then moved to Dadaism and the Surrealist movements. From 1928 to 193, he published unu – an avant-garde literature literary magazine that intertwined elements of Dadaism and Surrealism and attracted many of the modernist poets and writers in Romania, including the Jewish authors Tristan Tzara, Victor Brauner, Benjamine Fondane, Marcel Iancu, Jules Perahim, Gherasim Luca, Jean David, M.H. Maxy, Ilarie Voronca, and Ion Calugaru, as well as prominent Romanian and foreign writers and poets, among them Andre Breton, Paul Elouard, Robert Desnos, and Louis Aragon. Pana continued to publish volumes of poetry as well as novels in which he adapted the Surrealist automatism advanced by Andre Breton to his works, among them Diagrame ("Diagrams"; 1930), Echinox orbitor ("Blinding Equinox"; 1931), and Viața romanțată a lui Dumnezeu ("The Romanticized Life of God"; 1932). Some of his writings were illustrated by famous artists, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Janco, Man Ray, M.H. Maxy, and Victor Brauner, among others. After WW II, Pana published the Orizont left-wing magazine from 1944 to 1947. Since late 1940s and during the 1950s and the 1960s he published several volumes of prose as well as anthologies of his previous literary productions. His works include Răbojul unui muritor. Strofe banale ("The Tally of a mortal. Ordinary stanzas", 1926), Cuvântul talisman ("The word talisman", 1933), Călătorie cu funicularul ("Journey by funicular", 1934), Iarba fiarelor ("Beast Grass", 1937), Munții noaptea neliniștea ("Mountains night anxiety", 1940), Poeme fără de imaginație ("Poems without imagination", 1947), Poeme și poezii alese din cărți și din sertar (1925-1965) ("Poems and poetry chosen from books and drawers (1925-1965)", 1966), and Culoarea timpului. Poeme ("The color of time. Poems", 1977).

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BINDER Origin of surname
BINDER, BINDLER

Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name derives from an occupation, profession or trade (also connected with raw material, finished product or implements associated with that trade).

Binder and its variant Bindler could be derived either from the German word Fassbinder ("cooper") or Buchbinder ("book binder"). An old craft, bookbinding became a widespread trade among Jews, particularly after the development of printing.

Distinguished bearers of this Jewish family name include the 20th century American composer and conductor Abraham Wolf Binder.
Written by researchers of ANU Museum of the Jewish People
Sasa Pana

Sașa Pană (born Alexandru Binder) (1902-1981), poet, writer and editor of avant-garde literature, born in Bucharest, Romania. He studied medicine at the Universities of Iasi and Bucharest graduating in 1927 as a military physician. He dedicated himself to literature becoming one of the leading promoters of the avant-garde movements in the Romanian literature during the first half of the 20th century. From the publication of a collection of Symbolist poems in 1926, he then moved to Dadaism and the Surrealist movements. From 1928 to 193, he published unu – an avant-garde literature literary magazine that intertwined elements of Dadaism and Surrealism and attracted many of the modernist poets and writers in Romania, including the Jewish authors Tristan Tzara, Victor Brauner, Benjamine Fondane, Marcel Iancu, Jules Perahim, Gherasim Luca, Jean David, M.H. Maxy, Ilarie Voronca, and Ion Calugaru, as well as prominent Romanian and foreign writers and poets, among them Andre Breton, Paul Elouard, Robert Desnos, and Louis Aragon. Pana continued to publish volumes of poetry as well as novels in which he adapted the Surrealist automatism advanced by Andre Breton to his works, among them Diagrame ("Diagrams"; 1930), Echinox orbitor ("Blinding Equinox"; 1931), and Viața romanțată a lui Dumnezeu ("The Romanticized Life of God"; 1932). Some of his writings were illustrated by famous artists, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Janco, Man Ray, M.H. Maxy, and Victor Brauner, among others. After WW II, Pana published the Orizont left-wing magazine from 1944 to 1947. Since late 1940s and during the 1950s and the 1960s he published several volumes of prose as well as anthologies of his previous literary productions. His works include Răbojul unui muritor. Strofe banale ("The Tally of a mortal. Ordinary stanzas", 1926), Cuvântul talisman ("The word talisman", 1933), Călătorie cu funicularul ("Journey by funicular", 1934), Iarba fiarelor ("Beast Grass", 1937), Munții noaptea neliniștea ("Mountains night anxiety", 1940), Poeme fără de imaginație ("Poems without imagination", 1947), Poeme și poezii alese din cărți și din sertar (1925-1965) ("Poems and poetry chosen from books and drawers (1925-1965)", 1966), and Culoarea timpului. Poeme ("The color of time. Poems", 1977).