Tuesday 2 February 2016

A. DANKO

A. DANKO
            He was a Soviet Jewish engineer whose old mother published poems in Sovetish heymland (Soviet homeland) in Moscow in the names of her eminent son.  Later, people figured out the trick.  His first name was Vladimir.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 189.


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