BOREKH SHEYNGAUTER (b. 1912)
He was a
prose author, born in Kamenets-Podolsk (Kamianets-Podilskyi). He completed a seven-level Jewish school,
later pursuing his studies at the Yiddish state theater in Moscow, but he did
not graduate. At the start of WWII, he
left with the army and took part in the fighting. After being demobilized, he returned to
Moscow and worked in a series of factories as a laborer and office
employee. His first story, “Di gerekhte
shtrof” (The right punishment), was published in Sovetish heymland (Soviet homeland) in 1972. Other works include: Di prayz fun broyt (The price of bread), documentary stories and
notes (Moscow, 1986), 60 pp., a supplement to Sovetish heymland.
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. 386.
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