MAKS RIANT (b. 1923)
He was a
poet and essayist, born in Saratov, Russia.
He parents were collective farmers in the village of Valdheym,
Birobidzhan, whence they all moved in 1931.
He completed elementary and middle school there. He was mobilized in 1941 and fought on the front
in WWII. After the war, he graduated
from the pedagogical institute in Khabarovsk and a construction polytechnic,
before returning to Birobidzhan afterward.
In the early 1970s he moved to Samarkand, Uzbekistan; in 1995 he settled
in Israel. He began publishing in
1946. He became a contributor in 1947 to
Birebidzhaner shtern (Birobidzhan
star) and to local radio. He also wrote
for the literary almanac Birobidzhan
(Birobodzhan), and from 1961 for Sovetish
heymland (Soviet homeland). He wrote
poetry and jottings. A cycle of poems by
him appeared in Horizontn (Horizons)
(Moscow, 1965). His books: Breyte veltn (Wide worlds) (Moscow:
Sovetski pisatel, 1987), 192 pp.; Tsugn
kumen tsu der tsayt (Trains come on time), supplement to Sovetish heymland 3 (1988); Mit di oygn fun mayn harts (With the
eyes of my heart) (Tel Aviv: H. Leivick Publ., 2003), 223 pp.
Sources: Horizontn
(Horizons) (Moscow, 1965); Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
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. 363.]
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