Josef Burg (writer)

Josef Burg (May 30, 1912 – August 10, 2009) was an award-winning Jewish Soviet Yiddish writer, author, publisher and journalist.[1]

Josef Burg
Born(1912-05-30)30 May 1912
DiedAugust 10, 2009(2009-08-10) (aged 97)
NationalitySoviet, Ukrainian
Occupation(s)writer, author, publisher

Biography

Burg was born on May 30, 1912, in the town of Vyzhnytsia,[1] in the region of Bukovina, Austria-Hungary. In the years before World War I, the city of Chernivtsi, also called Czernowitz in both German and Yiddish, was the capital of the Bukovina region and a center of Yiddish language and culture.[1] The region became part of Romania following World War I.

Burg published his first professional writing in the Chernovitser Bleter, a Yiddish newspaper, in 1934.[1] The Romanian government closed and banned the Chernovitser Bleter in 1938, on charges of Bolshevik propaganda.[1]

Burg survived the Holocaust during World War II, but lost his entire family.[1] He took refuge in the Soviet Union.[1]

Burg continued to write and publish his works well into his 90s. In 1990, Burg revived the once banned Chernovitser Bleter newspaper as a monthly publication.[1]

Josef Burg died of a stroke on August 10, 2009, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, at the age of 97.[1]

Awards

Works

  • 1934: Afn splav
  • 1939: Afn tshermush [On the Czeremosz river] (German: Auf dem Czeremosz: Erzählungen. Boldt, 2005, ISBN 3-928788-50-7)
  • 1940: Sam [Poison] (German: Gift: zwei Erzählungen. Translated by Armin Eidherr. Boldt, 2005. ISBN 3-928788-51-5)
  • 1980: Dos leben geyt vayter. Dertseylungen, noveln, skitsn [Life goes on further: Stories, novellas, sketches]. Sowetski Pissatel
  • 1983: Iberuf fun tsaytn. [Roll-call of the times]. Sowetski Pissatel
  • 1988: Ein Gesang über allen Gesängen: Erzählungen und Skizzen.
  • 1990: A farshpetikter ekho [A late echo] (German: Ein verspätetes Echo. Partly bilingual. 1999. ISBN 3-87410-075-8)
  • 1997: Tsvey veltn [Two worlds]
  • 1997: Zevikelte stetshkes (Ukrainian original edition)
  • 2000: Irrfahrten. Boldt. ISBN 3-928788-35-3
  • 2004: Sterne altern nicht. Ausgewählte Erzählungen. Boldt, ISBN 3-928788-45-0
  • 2005: Dämmerung. Erzählungen. Boldt, ISBN 3-928788-54-X
  • 2006: Mein Czernowitz. Boldt, ISBN 3-928788-55-8
  • 2006: Begegnungen – eine Karpatenreise. Boldt, ISBN 3-928788-57-4
  • 2007: Über jiddische Dichter. Erinnerungen. Boldt, ISBN 3-928788-60-4
  • 2008: Ein Stück trockenes Brot. Ausgewählte Erzählungen. Boldt, ISBN 3-928788-65-5

References

  1. "Yiddish author Josef Burg dies in Ukraine". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. August 11, 2009. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  2. "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1828. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
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