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David (Dovid) Bergelson

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Region: Okhrimovo (province de Kiev), Berlin, Moscou

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Major modernist Yiddish prose writer, revealed after 1905. His novel Nokh Alemen (1913) was hailed as a masterpiece depicting the decline of Jewish bourgeoisie in the shtetls. He lived in Berlin and later joined the USSR; arrested in 1949, he was executed on August 12, 1952 during the 'Night of the Murdered Poets', then rehabilitated posthumously in 1955.

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