Efraim Kaganovsky ( 1893 , Warsaw , Kingdom of Poland , Russian Empire - 1958 , Paris , France ) - Jewish prose writer . He wrote in Yiddish .
| Efraim Kaganovsky | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw , Kingdom of Poland , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| Occupation | writer |
| Genre | prose |
| Language of Works | Yiddish |
Content
Biography
He studied painting at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts . After the outbreak of World War I, he left Warsaw for Odessa . In 1921 he returned to Poland [1] .
After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he fled from Poland to the Soviet Union . Since 1949 he lived in Paris [1] .
Creativity
His first study, Bainacht Indorf (Night in the Country), was published in 1909 in the Warsaw weekly.
In 1914 he published his first collection of short stories "Madelech" ("Girls") [1] .
He published a series of sketches and stories about the Civil War and the Jewish pogroms in Russia. Published in Jewish periodicals [1] .
He was one of the first in Yiddish literature to portray the world of vagrants, thieves, etc. with lively humor and deep lyrical and psychological connotations.
His work, in general, forms a colorful panorama of the now extinct life of various layers of Polish Jewry.
Selected Works
- Yiddish Schreiber in der Heim (Jewish Writers at Home) (Paris, 1956),
- Poilishe Yorn (Polish Years) (Warsaw, 1956) and others. [1]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Russian Abroad in France, 2008 , p. 640.
Source
- Kaganovsky Ephraim // Russian Abroad in France, 1919-2000: biogr. words. = [L'Émigration russe en France, 1919-2000]: in 3 volumes / under the general. ed. L. Mnukhina , M. Avril , V. Lossky . - M .: Science : House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva , 2008. - T. 1: AK. - S. 640 .-- 794 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-02-036267-3 . - ISBN 978-5-02-036267-3 ; ISBN 978-5-93015-104-6 (t. 1).