On this date, August
12, 1952, 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow, Russia,
Soviet Union. This case is also known as The Night of The Murdered Poets.
We, the comrades of
Unit 1012: The VFFDP, will remember them and encourage people not to forget
events like that in history, as we must learn from them. We will post
information about one of the victims, Leib Kvitko from Wikipedia. Let us not
forget his time on earth as a Children’s writer.
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Leib
Kvitko
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A little boy and his kitten are best friends
and play together day and night. But instead of catching mice at home, the
kitten plays and dances with them. When the boy's mother finds this out, she
throws the kitten out of the house. The kitten returns when the boy's mother is
away. The little boy rejoices, and his mother only smiles when she comes back
and sees them together again.
To read the entire book, click here.
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Leib Kvitko (Russian: Лейб
Квитко,
Yiddish: לייב קוויטקאָ) (October 15, 1890 – August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an
author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He was one of
the editors of Eynikayt (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine.
He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members
of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. Kvitko was rehabilitated in 1955.
He was born in a Ukrainian shtetl, attended
traditional Jewish religious school for boys (Cheder) and was orphaned early.
He moved to Kiev in 1917 and soon became one of the leading Yiddish poets of
the "Kiev group". He lived in Germany between 1921 and 1925 joining
there the Communist Party of Germany and publishing critically acclaimed poetry.
He returned to the USSR in 1925 and moved to Moscow in 1936, joining the CPSU
in 1939. By that time he was primarily writing verses for children and his
style fully corresponded to the canons of Socialist Realism.
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| Children's book by Kvitko |
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In vald L Kvitko tseykhenungen Y Ribak, children's book
cover
A little boy, Itsi, dreamt that he went to
the forest, where he met many different animals: a fox, a tiger, a lion, a
wolf, a bear, a monkey etc.
To read the entire book, clickhere.
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A little boy and his kitten are best friends
and play together day and night. But instead of catching mice at home, the
kitten plays and dances with them. When the boy's mother finds this out, she
throws the kitten out of the house. The kitten returns when the boy's mother is
away. The little boy rejoices, and his mother only smiles when she comes back
and sees them together again.
To read the entire book, click here.
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