Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Евреи в культуре русского зарубежья
Angaben zur Quelle:
I (1992) 55-73
Keywords:
Knut, Dovid Criticism and interpretation
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Russian poetry Jewish authors 20th century
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Poets, Jewish
Abstract:
Dovid Knut (né David Mironovich Fiksman, 1900-1955) was a Jew and a Russian poet. He was born in Moldova, and immigrated with his parents to Paris in 1920 where he continued to write and publish his works. In April 1940 he and his wife went south to Toulouse, and helped to establish the Jewish resistance organization "L'Armée Juive". In December 1942 he escaped to Switzerland; his wife was murdered by the French militia in July 1944. Knut returned to Paris after the liberation, and worked at the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine. In 1946 he became editor of the magazine "Le Monde juif". The next year he married actress Virginia Sharovskaya (who became Leah Fiksman). In 1949 he published, in Paris, a large volume of selected poems. In the same year, he and his family moved to Israel, where he taught Hebrew in an ulpan. He died due to cancer in 1955.
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