Creator Bio
Yisroel Rabon
1900–1941
The Yiddish novelist and poet Yisroel Rabon grew up in Baluty, an impoverished quarter near Lódz that he described in his novel Balut: roman fun a forshtot (1934). Rabon spent most of his life in Lódz but escaped to Vilna after the German invasion of Poland; there he was shot to death. Rabon’s realistic fiction and poetry show marginalized youths and soldiers in urban settings; his writings explore homelessness, sex, and violence. Rabon was also an editor, translator, and writer of pulp fiction.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Street: A Novel
For two months, enfolded from head to foot in crusted, freezing snow, we lay in the trenches on the Polish–Bolshevik front in White Russia. We lay about sleepily, suffering from fatigue, immobility…