Elya Sholomovich Kagan ( February 10, 1909 , Minsk - July 12, 1944 ) - Jewish Soviet writer [1] [2] [3] .
| Elya Sholomovich Kagan | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | February 10, 1909 |
| Place of Birth | Minsk |
| Date of death | July 12, 1944 (35 years) |
| Place of death | The Grodno region |
| A country | |
| Occupation | writer , editor |
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Biography
Born in a teacher's family. [4] He studied at the shoemakers' vocational school, worked in the Minsk magazine Stern ( star ). He made his debut with the story "Heart on the Rings" ("A Harz af Wesles") in 1926 in the newspaper " Der Emes " - "Ames-Journal" ( Moscow ). He graduated from vocational school, worked at the Institute of Jewish Culture of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR .
In April 1941, he was arrested along with Hirsch Berezkin and Zelik Axelrod . On June 26, NKVD officers took the prisoners to the forest, where they shot all political prisoners. Kagan survived because he was taken for a criminal, Axelrod was killed, and Berezkin fled at the time of the execution [5] .
He died in 1944 at the front during the liberation of Belarus [6] . He was buried in a mass grave in the village Zelva .
Creativity
Author of the books Dertseilungen un miniature (Stories and miniatures) (1932), Merry Tune (A A Lebedik Gezindl), And some he cloisters (The City Without Churches, 1936), Children's Stories (1936), staging (with Z. Axelrod ) "The Little Man" based on the works of Mendel Moyher-Sforim (1938). In 1936-1939, the literary editor in the Minsk magazine "Stern" [7] [8] .
Publications
- Fresh hay: Stories / Trans. from Heb. A. Gontarya and V. Gofshteyna. In the output: Elya Sholomovich Kagan. M .: Soviet writer, 1963.
Notes
- ↑ Memorial Society: Elya Sholomovich Kagan
- ↑ Imprint of books in Russian: Elya Sholomovich Kagan
- ↑ War graves: Elya Sholomovich Kagan Archival copy of July 24, 2015 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ War- wrecked lines Archival copy from December 2, 2013 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Reles, 2006 , p. 48-49, 129.
- ↑ Reles, 2006 , p. 49.
- ↑ A. School “Nobody is forgotten? Nothing is forgotten? ”
- ↑ February 23
Literature
- Reles G. Jewish Soviet Writers of Belarus: Memoirs / Trans. from Yiddish M. Ya. Akkerman, S. L. Liokumovich. - Mn. : Kolas, 2006. - pp. 128-129. - 320 s. - 500 copies - ISBN 985-6783-11-9 .
Links
- Kagan, Elya Sholomovich - Article from the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia