Peretz Markish
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Peretz Davidovich Markish was a Russian Jewish poet and playwright who wrote predominantly in Yiddish.
Left to right: Moishe Broderzon, Peretz Markish, Alter Kacyzne
Peretz Markish (in centre), with Mendl Elkin, Peretz Hirschbein, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Melech Ravitch and I. J. Singer in 1922.
Night of the Murdered Poets
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The Night of the Murdered Poets occurred on 12 August 1952, and it involved the execution of 13 Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. Arrests were made in September 1948 and June 1949, with al
Peretz Markish
…crimes", and arrested. Markish was accused of being a "Jewish nationalist", and arrested in January 1949, and shot with other Jewish writers during the Night of the Murdered Poets in August 1952. After Stalin's death, Markish's widow Esther and his sons, literary scholar Shimon Markish and prose writer David Markish, actively set…
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