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August 31, 2017
The Grave of a Great Yiddish Poet Has Been Found in Siberia
Der Nister died in the gulag, just a few years before his colleagues were murdered.
In the aftermath of World War II, Joseph Stalin began to adopt policies of official anti-Semitism, which included the arrest and eventual execution of many leading figures of Yiddish theater and literature. Among them was Pinḥas Kahanovitsh, known by the pen name Der Nister (“the Hidden One”), whose poetry, short stories, and novels are considered exemplars of Jewish modernism. Two researchers recently discovered his grave in the coal-mining village of Vorkuta above the Arctic Circle. The Jewish Telegraph Agency reports:
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The Grave of a Great Yiddish Poet Has Been Found in Siberia
Der Nister died in the gulag, just a few years before his colleagues were murdered.