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Native name | לייזער וואלף |
Born | Eliezer Mekler 1910 Šnipiškės, Vilnius, Vilnius Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania) |
Died | 1944 (aged 33–34) Shakhrisabz, Uzbek SSR (present-day Uzbekistan)[1] |
Occupation | Poet, writer |
Language | Yiddish |
Nationality | Russian |
Leyzer Volf (Yiddish: לייזער וואָלף; Russian: Лейзер Менделевич Вольф, romanized: Leyzer Mendelevich Volf; born Eliezer Mekler; 1910, in Šnipiškės, Vilnius – April 1943, in Shakhrisabz) was a Yiddish poet and writer of the Yung-Vilne movement, best remembered for his poems Black Pearls (1939), Lyric and satire (1940), and Brown Beast (1943).[2][3][4][5]