Itzik Feffer
Itzik Feffer (also Fefer , Yiddish איציק פֿעפֿער, Russian Ицик Фефер, Исаак Соломонович Фефер; born 10. September 1900 in Shpola , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; died 12. August 1952 in Moscow ) was a Soviet Yiddish writer. He was a victim of the Stalin Purge in 1952 .
Feffer was initially a member of the Bund and became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 . In 1920 he published his first Yiddish poems and soon took a leading place in Soviet-Yiddish literature. He wrote rhythmic and musical verses in a rich and idiomatic language that expressed his lyrical and at times sentimental nature. He stuck to the established party line, and most of his works are propaganda for the Communist Party. His poem Stalin became famous . However, he wrote in the Second World War and I am a Yid ( "I am a Jew"), and his poems Schotens fun Warschewer Geto ( "Shadow of the Warsaw Ghetto ") are an important contribution to the literature on the Holocaust . He also wrote poems about the Jewish Autonomous Region , with the capital Birobidzhan , in Eastern Siberia, as well as descriptions of nature and poems for children. His works appeared in all Yiddish magazines in the Soviet Union and were collected and reprinted several times.
After he had fought at the front as a lieutenant colonel in the Red Army in the war against Germany , he visited the United States in 1943 together with the actor Solomon Michoels as a representative of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee . In 1948 he was arrested in the course of the anti-Jewish Stalinist purges and executed on August 12, 1952 in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow on the " Night of the Murdered Poets ". After Stalin's death and the condemnation of the Stalin cult by Khrushchev Feffer has been rehabilitated . In 1958, extracts from his works were published in a Russian translation in the Soviet Union.
literature
- Encyclopedia Judaica . Vol. 6, pp. 1203-1204.
Web links
- Arno Lustiger : How Stalin's persecution of Jews was concealed.
- 60 Years Since the Murder of Jewish Intellectuals in the Soviet Union. In: The National Library of Israel. Digital library.
- The story of the flourishing and the geography of the decline of Yiddish literature ( Lev Berinski )
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| SURNAME | Feffer, Itzik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fefer, Itzik; Фефер, Ицик (Russian); Фефер, Исаак Соломонович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yiddish poet in the Soviet Union |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shpola , Kiev Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1952 |
| Place of death | Moscow |