Months and Days

Itsik Kipnis

1926

[ . . . ] And we get out of their way; we move in the opposite direction, toward where they’ve come from, toward Petroshi.

And you see, they do not forbid it. And it may be that in Petroshi, where they live, we will be permitted to spend the night somewhere. After all, we are “Sloveshne Jews.” Isn’t it true that they have a high regard for…

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Itsik Kipnis

1896–1974

Born in Sloveshne, Ukraine, Itsik Kipnis was a writer of Yiddish literature for children and adults. He is best known for his popular prose work Khadoshim un teg (Months and Days), a first-person narrative of shtetl life in a period of violence and revolution. Moved by the Holocaust and the unique experience of Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II, Kipnis began to write in a vein considered too “nationalist” for Soviet authorities and was subsequently exiled to a labor camp until 1956. He is remembered today in large part for his children’s stories, many of which were translated into Russian during his lifetime.

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