Josef Burg | |
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Born | |
Died | August 10, 2009 | (aged 97)
Nationality | Soviet, Ukrainian |
Occupation(s) | writer, author, publisher |
Josef Burg (May 30, 1912 – August 10, 2009) was an award-winning Jewish Soviet Yiddish writer, author, publisher and journalist. [1]
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]
Josef Burg | |
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Born | |
Died | August 10, 2009 | (aged 97)
Nationality | Soviet, Ukrainian |
Occupation(s) | writer, author, publisher |
Josef Burg (May 30, 1912 – August 10, 2009) was an award-winning Jewish Soviet Yiddish writer, author, publisher and journalist. [1]
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]