Abram Markowitsch Efros

Abram Efros (back row, 2nd from right)

Abram Markowitsch Efros ( Russian Абрам Маркович Эфрос ; born May 3, 1888 in Moscow , † November 19, 1954 ibid) was a Russian art critic , poet and translator.

Life

From 1907 to 1911 Efros studied law ; Study trips took him to Austria, Germany, Italy, Greece, Switzerland and Turkey. After the October Revolution of 1917, he devoted himself entirely to art criticism and worked for the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow . He organized the exhibition to mark the 10th anniversary of the revolution and in 1927 in Paris prepared the exhibition of the latest French art for presentation in Moscow. In 1950 he became a professor at the State Institute of Theatrical Arts in Tashkent.

Efros was a member of the literary commission of the Black Book on the Holocaust and the crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union .

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References and footnotes

↑ Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.): The black book: the genocide of the Soviet Jews. German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .
↑ Shimon Redlich, Kirill Mikhaĭlovich Anderson, I. Alʹtman: War, the Holocaust and Stalinism: Documented Study of the Jewish Antifascist Committee in the USSR. 1995, p. 371 ( partial online view )

personal data
SURNAME	Efros, Abram Markowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Эфрос, Абрам Маркович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian art critic, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 1954
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.): The black book: the genocide of the Soviet Jews. German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .

[2] Shimon Redlich, Kirill Mikhaĭlovich Anderson, I. Alʹtman: War, the Holocaust and Stalinism: Documented Study of the Jewish Antifascist Committee in the USSR. 1995, p. 371 ( partial online view )