Yosef Trakhtenberg ( Yiddish יוסף טראַכטנבערג - Yoisef Trahtnberg ; 1912 , Briceni , Khotyn district , Bessarabian province - 1941 , Transnistria ) - Jewish poet . He wrote in Yiddish .
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Biography
He was a member of the literary group “Jung-Rumenye” ( Young Romania ) in Chisinau and later in Bucharest , founded by Bessarabian writers Yankev Yakir , Hertz Gaisiner-Rivkin and others [1] . It began to be published in 1933, when two of his great poems, Besarabish ( in Bessarabian ) and Katsovim ( butchers ), were published in the Szhetka literary magazine Ufgang ( Sunrise , No. 4) [2] .
The poem “Af Besaraber Erd” ( on the Bessarabian land ) was also published in Sighet, then a separate book in Chicago (1935), with the cover of the work of Lazar Dubinovsky . This epic epic poem consisted of two parts: I - “Prologue, summer in the village, winter in the village, years fly by”; II - "Under the royal yoke, red spring, last flash, shadow, epilogue." Another great poem in 3 thousand lines “Die lezte vanderung” (the last wandering ) was published in the journal Ufgang in May and June 1935.
In 1936, Joseph Trachtenberg, together with the poet Josl Lerner, wrote a series of dramatic scenes for variety theater, and he himself performed in such productions as Der Katerinchik ( organ-grinder ), Der Vaser-Fyrer ( water carrier ), Reiseles Holem ( Son Reisele ).
With the beginning of the Romanian occupation of Bessarabia in 1941, I. Trakhtenberg and his family were deported to Transnistria and killed in the Kamenetz-Podolsk area .
Publications
- אױף בעסאַראַבער ערד ( Af Besaraber Erd - on the Bessarabian land). Chicago: M. Tseshinsky, 1935. - 3000 copies.