Dovid Hofshteyn
Dovid Hofshteyn | |
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| Born | June 12, 1889 Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Yiddish |
| Literary movement | modernism[2] |
Dovid Hofshteyn (
Yiddish poet. He was one of the 13 Jewish intellectuals executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets
.
Biography
He was born in
Kiev University was declined. Hofshteyn began to write in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, and Ukrainian. His sister Shifra Kholodenko
also became a poet.
After the
Kiev triumvirate of Yiddish poets, along with Leib Kvitko and Peretz Markish
.
Hofshteyn's elegies for Jewish communities devastated by the White movement pogroms appeared in 1922, with illustrations by Marc Chagall. Both had worked together as teachers at shelter for Jewish boys in suburban Malakhovka, which housed and employed boys orphaned by Ukrainian pogroms.[5]: 273
Hofshteyn protested the banning of Hebrew and the persecution of Hebrew writers, arousing the suspicion of the authorities. He therefore emigrated first to Germany and then to
posthumously rehabilitated
, and Hofshteyn's selected works reappeared in a Russian translation in 1958.
See also
Further reading
- Liptzin, Sol (1997). "Hofstein, David". ISBN 965-07-0665-8
- Brett Winestock: MUSEUMS OF SHAME: Dovid Hofshteyn’s Vision of Holocaust Remembrance, in: ZfL BLOG 2022
References
- ^ "JewishGen". JewishGen Ukrainian Births.
- S2CID 162381678. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- S2CID 165460244. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ Wullschlager, Jackie. Chagall: A Biography Knopf, 2008
- ^ "YIVO | Hofshteyn, Dovid".
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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