A Mirror on a Stone: The Poetry and Prose of Twelve Martyred Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union

Khone Shmeruk

1964

Introduction

The criterion for the selection of works to be included in the anthology was above all their lasting literary and artistic value, though here and there poems and short stories were included whose value, from a literary and artistic point of view, was essentially documentary. Despite all efforts to present every writer as much as…

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Khone Shmeruk

1921–1997

Yiddish scholar Khone Shmeruk was born in Warsaw and educated in a variety of Jewish schools before he enrolled at the University of Warsaw. His studies were interrupted in 1939, when he fled to the Soviet Union. In 1949, he joined his grandparents who had settled in Palestine before the war, went on to head the Yiddish Department at the Hebrew University, and was awarded the Israel Prize in 1996. He chose to be buried in Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery.

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