Motl (Mikhail Iosifovich) Gruvman ( March 18, 1916 , Nemirov , Vinnytsia region - December 31, 1988 , Novgorod ) - Jewish Soviet poet. He wrote in Yiddish .
He began to publish in Jewish newspapers in the 1930s “Zagreit”, “Junge Guard” (Young Guard Yiddish.), “Stern” (Star of Yiddish.), In the literary magazine “Forpost”. Entered the USSR Union of Writers During the author’s life two books were published:
- “The Blizzard Years” - in Yiddish (Soviet writer, Moscow, 1983) and
- "In love with life" - in Russian (Lenizdat, 1986).
Printed in many literary collections and magazines. In 1988, a representative selection of his poems was published in the Leningrad literary magazine Zvezda. He translated poems by S. Gudzenko , M. Dudin, M. Lvov, Yu. Drunina into Yiddish. Poems of Gruvman were printed in Russian in translations from Vs. Azarov , N. Grudinina, A. Kushner , A. Chepurov and others Posthumously published a collection of poems "Live and Blossom" with illustrations by People's Artist of Russia Mikhail Nepomnyashchy.
Poem
Slovenian Sea (translated from Yiddish):
Ilmen wavers in the free space,
Fishing soyma uplifting easily.
Slovenian Sea,
Slovenian Sea - So in the old days they called him.
Thirty rivers flow to it,
Fields, let the green valleys.
From here it is wide to Ladoga itself
Volkhov carries its waters alone.
The lake invites itself invincibly
Both in summer and in winter fisherman.
Gives catches bream and burbot,
And in the spring - plenty of smelt.
Ilmen wavers in the free space.
The wave with the horizon, he meets
Slovenian Sea, Slovenian Sea,
You are our song, our bow to you!