Aron Vergelis

Aron Vergelis (Yiddish: אהרן װערגעליס; Russian: Аро́н А́лтерович Верге́лис; born 7 May 1918 in Lyubar (now in Zhitomyr Oblast), died 7 April 1999 in Moscow) was a Soviet poet and journalist of Jewish descent who wrote in Yiddish.

Aron Vergelis attended high school in Birobidzhan, Soviet Union, where his parents had moved to in 1932 (cf Jewish Autonomous Oblast).[1] He published his first works in 1935 and his first collection of poems was published in 1940. The same year Vergelis graduated from the Lenin Moscow Pedagogical Institute[2] He took part in World War II, worked as an editor of Yiddish language radio broadcasts and worked after the war as a secretary of the Jewish department of the Soviet Writers' Union.[3]

Aron Vergelis was one of the few Jewish writers who managed to avoid the purges of 1948–1953.[4] In 1955 he became a member of the CPSU.[5] From 1961 on he worked as the editor-in-chief of the Yiddish language journal Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland).[6] He took part in Soviet anti-Zionist campaigns.

References

  1. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, second edition, volume 20, p. 510. ISBN 0-02-865948-1
  2. ↑ Bol'shaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya, vol. 4, p. 526
  3. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, second edition, volume 20, p. 510. ISBN 0-02-865948-1
  4. ↑ http://www.eleven.co.il/article/10891 (Russian)
  5. ↑ Bol'shaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya, vol. 4, p. 526
  6. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, second edition, volume 20, p. 510. ISBN 0-02-865948-1

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