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.
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Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Fiction and Poetry
1939–1973
Jewish literature developed individual rather than collective voices, as postwar Jewish identity was transformed by the forces of modernism and assimilation.