12/26 | Birthday of Nokhem Oyslender
Today in Yiddishkayt… December 26 Birthday of Nokhem Oyslender, Literary Critic The Soviet literary scholar Nokhem Oyslender was born on December 26, 1893 in the Volhynian village of Khodorkov (today Ходорків, Ukraine). He went off to school in Kiev and studied medicine in Berlin and Kiev before serving as a doctor during the civil war between 1919 and 1922. During the war period he began writing articles, short stories, and poetry filled with revolutionary spirit. Over the course of his career, Oyslender became most esteemed as a literary critic and historian. He taught Yiddish...
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