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Yosef Rabin

1945

It was close to Passover. In the house, Passover was already present. But Father was not in a holiday mood. He looked at nobody and even his appearance changed. A yellow cast covered his face.

He had certainly surmised something, but said nothing.

On the very eve of the holiday, on the eve of Passover itself, as preparations were underway to go to…

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Yosef Rabin

1900–1987

Yosef Rabin, a first-generation Soviet Yiddish writer, was born in Grodno. Earning his spurs as the leader the head of the underground Komsomol youth organization in Vilna, he fled in 1920 to Moscow, where he worked as a Yiddish-language typesetter and studied in the Yiddish department of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. In 1936, Rabin was sent to lead the writers’ organization in the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, but was purged a year later and sent to the gulag. Released during World War II, Rabin fought with the Red Army and returned to Moscow after the war, where he eventually served on the editorial board of Sovetish heymland from 1961 to 1972.

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