1/10 | Birthday of Jakub Zonszajn
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 10 Birthday of Jakub Zonszajn, Yiddish Poet and Playwright Jakub (Yankev) Zonszajn was born in Łuków January 10, 1914 to a rather impoverished family. He received a traditional education in the town before heading off to Warsaw where he frequented the famed Jewish Literary Union at Tłomackie 13. He made his literary debut with the publication of some of his poems soon after. During the Second World War, Zonszajn remained in the Soviet Union. When he returned to Poland, he settled in Wrocław, where he became immersed in the small but influential crowd of...
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