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| birth_name = Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|10|15|}} |
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| birth_place = Goloskov, [[Podolia Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]] |
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1952|08|12|1890|10|15|}} |
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| death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]] |
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| occupation = Poet |
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⚫ | '''Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko''' ({{lang-ru|Лев Моисе́евич Кви́тко}}, {{lang-yi|לייב קוויטקאָ}}) (October 15, 1890 – August 12, 1952) was a prominent [[Yiddish]] poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the [[Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee]] (JAC). He was one of the editors of ''Eynikayt'' (the JAC's newspaper) and of the ''[[Heymland]]'', a literary magazine. He was executed in [[Moscow]] on August 12, 1952, together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the [[Night of the Murdered Poets]]. Kvitko was rehabilitated in 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lists.memo.ru/d15/f445.htm |title=Списки жертв |publisher=Lists.memo.ru |date= |accessdate=2014-06-15}}</ref> |
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⚫ | He was born in a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[shtetl]], attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys ([[cheder]]) and was orphaned early. He moved to [[Kyiv]] in 1917 and soon became one of the leading Yiddish poets of the "Kiev Group". He lived in [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] between 1921 and 1925 joining there the [[Communist Party of Germany]] and publishing critically acclaimed poetry. He returned to the Soviet Union in 1925 and moved to [[Moscow]] in 1936, joining the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU]] in 1939. By that time he was primarily writing verses for children and his style fully corresponded to the canons of [[socialist realism]]. He has family who still live in [[Ukraine]]. Some family is also located in the [[United States of America]] and [[Canada]]. |
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⚫ | He was born in a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[shtetl]], attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys ([[ |
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Me shlisṭ oys derfar, L. Ḳṿiṭḳo ; tseykhnungen, Y. Ribak.jpg |
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A tsig mit zibn tsigelekh, ṭeḳsṭ L. Ḳṿiṭḳo; bilder A. Sudamara - א ציג מיט זיבן ציגעלעך, טעקסט ל. קװיטקא; בילדער א. סודאמארא (3859858454).jpg |
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Di poṭshṭ, S. Marshaḳ fun Rusish L. Ḳṿiṭḳo; tseykhenungen M. Ḳoṭlyareṿsḳi - די פאטשט, ס. מארשאק; פונ רוסיש, ל. קװיטקא; צײכענונגענ, מ. קאטליארעװסקי (3859817560).jpg |
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*[http://www.languages-study.com/yiddish/kvitko.html The Jewish Poet, Lev Kvitko] {{ |
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*[http://www.languages-study.com/yiddish/kvitkolider.html Selected poetry of Jewish poet Lev Knitrko] {{ |
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*[http://judaica.kiev.ua/eg9/eg934.htm Life would have been magnificent, contains Kvitko's letters to friends], in Almanac "Yegupets", No 9, [[Kiev]] {{ |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041024234421/http://www.judaica.kiev.ua/eg9/eg934.htm Life would have been magnificent, contains Kvitko's letters to friends], in Almanac "Yegupets", No 9, [[Kiev]] {{in lang|ru}} |
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Leyb Kvitko | |
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Born | Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko October 15, 1890 Goloskov, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | August 12, 1952 | (aged 61)
Occupation | Poet |
Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko (Russian: Лев Моисе́евич Кви́тко, Yiddish: לייב קוויטקאָ) (October 15, 1890 – August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He was one of the editors of Eynikayt (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine. He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952, together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. Kvitko was rehabilitated in 1955.[1]
He was born in a Ukrainian shtetl, attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys (cheder) and was orphaned early. He moved to Kyiv in 1917 and soon became one of the leading Yiddish poets of the "Kiev Group". He lived in Germany between 1921 and 1925 joining there the Communist Party of Germany and publishing critically acclaimed poetry. He returned to the Soviet Union in 1925 and moved to Moscow in 1936, joining the CPSU in 1939. By that time he was primarily writing verses for children and his style fully corresponded to the canons of socialist realism. He has family who still live in Ukraine. Some family is also located in the United States of America and Canada.
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Children's book by Kvitko
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In vald L Kvitko tseykhenungen Y Ribak, children's book cover
References
[edit]- ^ "Списки жертв". Lists.memo.ru. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
External links
[edit]- Works by or about Leib Kvitko at the Internet Archive
- The Jewish Poet, Lev Kvitko (in Russian)
- Selected poetry of Jewish poet Lev Knitrko (in Russian)
- Life would have been magnificent, contains Kvitko's letters to friends, in Almanac "Yegupets", No 9, Kiev (in Russian)
- 1890 births
- 1952 deaths
- 20th-century male writers
- 20th-century Ukrainian poets
- 20th-century Ukrainian writers
- People from Podolia Governorate
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Children's poets
- Executed writers
- Yiddish-language poets
- Jewish anti-fascists
- Jewish socialists
- Jewish Ukrainian poets
- Jews executed by the Soviet Union
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- Soviet children's writers
- Soviet Jews
- Soviet male poets
- Soviet male writers
- Soviet rehabilitations
- Ukrainian anti-fascists
- Ukrainian children's writers
- Ukrainian male poets
- Ukrainian male writers