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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]

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Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko
Born	(1890-10-15)October 15, 1890 Russian Empire
Died	August 12, 1952(1952-08-12) (aged 61) USSR
Occupation	Poet

He was born in a Ukrainian shtetl, attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys (cheder) and was orphaned early. He moved to Kiev 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 USSR 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.

Gallery

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  Children's book by Kvitko
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  In vald L Kvitko tseykhenungen Y Ribak, children's book cover
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References

External links

• Works by or about Leib Kvitko at 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)

На других языках

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- [en] Leib Kvitko

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[fr] Leib Kvitko

Leib Kvitko, ou Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko, ou Lev Moïsseïevitch Kvitko (en russe : Лев (Лейб) Моисеевич Квитко), né le 11 novembre 1890 dans le village de Goloskovo (aujourd'hui en Ukraine)[1] et mort le 12 août 1952 à Moscou, est un écrivain russe et soviétique de langue yiddish.

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[ru] Квитко, Лев Моисеевич

Лев (Лейб) Моисе́евич Кви́тко[1] (идиш ‏לייב קוויטקאָ‎‏‎, укр. Лев (Лейб) Мойсейович Квітко; 15 октября 1890 — 12 августа 1952) — еврейский советский поэт (писал на идише).

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