Shmuel Persov

Shmuel Dawidowitsch Persow ( Russian Самуил Давидович Персов / Samuil Dawidowitsch Persow ; born 1890 in Pochep ; died November 23, 1950 in Moscow ) was a Soviet writer who wrote in Yiddish and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFK) .

Life

Shmuel Persow was born as the son of a merchant and Jewish teacher ( Melamed ) in 1890 in Potschep, which at that time belonged to the Chernigov Governorate in the Russian Empire . In 1905 he joined the Bund . At the age of 16 he emigrated to the USA . There he began to write articles for the radical magazine Fraye Arbeter Shtime in 1909 . After the February Revolution of 1917 , he returned to Russia. Here he wrote articles on economics as well as skits and short stories in Yiddish and helped found the Yiddish section of the Moscow Association of Proletarian Writers . But mainly he wrote documentary stories like Mentshn fun metro, published in 1935 - people of the metro .

After the German attack on the Soviet Union , Schmueö Persow became a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee . After the end of the war, like all leading members, he was arrested in 1949. He was tried at the end of 1950 and was executed on November 23, 1950; 2 years before the majority of the JAFK leadership was murdered.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ berinski.com.Retrieved August 4, 2018.
2. ↑ yivoencyclopedia.org Retrieved August 4, 2018
3. ↑ jewishvirtuallibrary.org Most of the information is from this source. Retrieved August 4, 2018.

literature

• Arno Lustiger : Rotbuch: Stalin and the Jews. The tragic story of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Soviet Jews. Structure, Berlin 1998, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-7466-8049-2 .