MOTL KAPLAN (b. 1909)
He was a
poet, born in Minsk into a laboring family.
Over the years 1926-1927, he worked as a carpenter in Minsk construction
work and studied in evening school.
After graduating, he became an actor in a wandering Yiddish theater in
Byelorussia. He began writing poetry for
Der yunger arbeter (The young
laborer) in Minsk in 1931, and in the early 1930s he worked for the editorial
board. He later went back into
construction work. He contributed to: Oktyabr (October) in Minsk, the journal Shtern (Star), and the almanac Atake (Attack) (Minsk, 1934), among
other serials. Since the purges of the
mid-1930s, he withdrew from Yiddish writing circles. During WWII he fought at the front. In 1948 he graduated from the Minsk polytechnical
institute and worked as a construction engineer. One of his most important works was entitled “Di
tseshisene” (Those shot).
Khayim Maltinski
[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. 321.]
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