Tenant Number 88

Efraim Kaganovsky

1923

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This text contains depictions of sexual violence. It provides insight into history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote violence any kind.

Some sort of strange, humid day. . . . Some sort of day with a ragged sun and low, dark clouds, like threads of smoke, already happened once before in the past: in distant years long ago, when our present-day Marcus Krul was still a boy.

Now he stands in the middle of the yard before the dark, gray house with its three wings, which he inherited…

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Efraim Kaganovsky

1893–1958

One of the first Yiddish writers to set his work in the city rather than the shtetl, Efraim (Froyim) Kaganovsky was a prolific writer of short stories about Jewish life in Warsaw. With a focus on the everyday drama of the Jewish street, Kaganovsky was widely read, his work serialized in multiple newspapers and printed in books in several editions. After spending World War II as a refugee in the Soviet Union, Kaganovsky participated in the rebuilding of Jewish culture in postwar Poland and eventually settled in Paris.

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