Mosze Kulbak
Mozeze Kulbak, born 1896 in Smorgonia, died in 1937 in the USSR) is a Jewish poet, novelist and publicist in Yiddish. Curriculum vitae
He was born in Smorgonia in Vilnius, where he also received traditional religious education. From 1919 he lived in Vilnius, where he worked as a teacher, debuting in 1920 a volume of poetry by Szirim (Yiddish שירים, Songs) and quickly gaining recognition in literary circles. Then in 1920-1923 he was in Berlin, where he worked as a suflera, while publishing the drama Jankew Frank (Yiddish יעקבֿ פֿראַנק), inspired by the life of the mystery of James Frank. Upon his return to Vilnius, he again worked as a literary teacher in one of the Jewish junior high schools and in the Jewish Teachers' Seminary. From this period, the poem Vilnius (Yiddish ווילנע, Vilnius), Montik's novel (Yiddish מאָנטיק, Monday) and the published three-volume collection of Kulbak's works were published by Boris Kleckin in 1929.
From 1929 he lived in the Belarusian Socialist Soviet Republic, where he continued his literary career. In 1937, during the Great Purgation, he was a victim of Stalinist repression and was arrested by the NKVD after being arrested by the NKVD, where he died. Bibliography
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