A Kol Nidre Service at the Gȩsia Street Cemetery

Yankev Botoshanski

1956

I was then in Warsaw for the second time. That city had always exerted a powerful attraction for me, with its great and all-encompassing Jewish life. When I was in the Polish capital for the first time, Jewish life was flourishing, though there was no lack of antisemitism even then. When I was in the same city, and in Poland as a whole, a second…

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Yankev Botoshanski

1895–1964

A well-known essayist, critic, and playwright, Yankev Botoshanski was born in Bessarabia and began his literary career as a journalist in Russian, adopting Yiddish as his language of self-expression in 1912. His cabaret-style plays were widely performed in Romania and Poland. Moving to Argentina in 1926, Botoshanski became the editor of Di prese, the major Yiddish daily in Buenos Aires. After the war, he turned to life writing, both about the Old Country and the New.

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