Jokūbas Josadė

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Jokūbas Josadė ( Russian Яков Йосаде ; transliteration: Jakow Jossade ; scientific transliteration Jakov Josade ; born 1911 in Kalvarija ; died 1995 in Vilnius (German: Vilnius)) was a Soviet-Lithuanian writer , playwright and literary critic who initially wrote Yiddish , wrote in Lithuanian after World War II . He is a writer of short stories, plays, and published articles on Lithuanian literature.

Live and act

Josadė came from a middle-class background; his father owned a small textile factory. After attending a Yiddish high school in Wilkomir , he studied at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas and later worked for various Yiddish newspapers, including Der Emes (The Truth), Schtraln , Schtern and Ejnikajt .

During the war he fought in the ranks of the 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division of the Red Army , published in army newspapers and reached Central Asia during this time. He later worked for the literary magazine Pergalė (Victory). His three-act play Itzig Wittenberg about the first commander of the Jewish resistance organization Fareinigte Partisaner Organisatzije (FPO) in the Vilna Ghetto , which he prepared for publication in 1947, could not be performed because Yiddish culture was destroyed in the Soviet Union during those years. In the 1980s he revised the first version of the play and published it in the Yiddish magazine Sowjetisch Heimland .

He was friends with Hirsch Oscherowitsch , with whom he fled Kaunas when the war broke out and whom he later visited in his new home in Israel.

In the black book on the Holocaust and the crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union , his sketch The fighters of the Kaunas ghetto , which he wrote down based on stories from surviving partisans, was included. He came to Kaunas after the city was liberated.

After returning from the front, he lived in Vilnius.

His book The Slammed Doors in the form of letters to his daughter (in Israel) and a play deals with the extremely complicated and tragic Jewish-Lithuanian relations before, during and after the war .

He is buried in the cemetery on Antakalnis Mountain.

Quote

“It is a fantasy venture to rebuild all of Jewish culture here (i.e. in Vilnius). We can only rebuild the stones on the graves of Judaism here. We can only do our best to be Jewish, but we cannot rebuild here. It is impossible."

- Jokūbas Josadė, 1990

Publications (selection)

  • Užupio drama: pjesės Vilnius, Vaga, 1981 (selected pieces :)
Užupio drama
Nepalik manęs, Liuda
Penkiese prie vaišių stalo
Širdis dėžutėje
Tardytojas .

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ The Emes (English)
  2. ↑ Šešioliktoji lietuviškoji šaulių divizija (Lithuanian)
  3. ↑ Pergalė (Lithuanian)
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ^ J. Zeitlin: Long conversations. 2000, p. 286.
  6. ↑ Jokubas Josade, dedication to the library of the Jerusalem University , quoted from: Zeitlin, p. 286.
  7. ^ Esther Schrader: Vilnius: An Exodus From the Rebirth . In: Los Angeles Times . July 9, 1990.

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SURNAME Josadė, Jokūbas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Josade, Jokubas; Jossade, Jakow; Iosad, Iakov; Jossade, yes .; Josade, Jakow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Lithuanian writer, playwright and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalvarija
DATE OF DEATH 1995
Place of death Vilnius