Creator Bio
Boris Yampolski
1912–1972
Fiction writer and essayist Boris Yampolski (Iampol’skii) was born in Belaia Tserkov’, Ukraine. Beginning in 1927, he spent several years as a journalist in Baku, Azerbaijan, and Stalinsk, Central Siberia. Yampolski then came to Moscow, and during World War II served as a military correspondent in Belorussia for Krasnaia zvezda and Izvestiia. After the war he composed fiction but found resistance to publication because he wrote about Jewish topics, painfully recalling life in the shtetl. He died in Moscow.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Country Fair
The small town resounded with whistling and shouting. The smell of stewing, the smell of frying, the smell of boiling.
Mr. Dykhes had sold all his defective soap to the army.
Mus…
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