AVROM BAGDAD

AVROM BAGDAD (1894-1923)

            He was a poet and teacher, one of the first Soviet Yiddish writers to celebrate the Revolution in the first years of its triumph. While biographical information is lacking, according to the work he published, one can see that he lived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and that he was a leader in the Jewish section in the Commissariat of Education. He was the author of: Lider (Poems) (Tashkent: Jewish Section of the Commissariat of Education of the T.A.R.R.S.F., 1919), 60 pp.; and Alef-beys un leze-bukh farn ershtn shul-yor (Alphabet and reader for the first year of school) (Tashkent: Jewish Section of the Education Commissariat of the T.A.R.R.S.F., 1919), 40 pp.

[Additional information from: Chaim Beider, Leksikon fun yidishe shrayber in ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York: Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011), p. 34.]