Peretz Markish

Peretz Markish
Left to right: Moishe Broderzon, Peretz Markish, Alter Kacyzne
Born
Peretz Davidovich Markish

7 December 1895 (25 November OS)
Died12 August 1952
Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian

Peretz Davidovich Markish (Yiddish: פּרץ מאַרקיש) (‹See Tfd›Russian: Перец Давидович Маркиш) (7 December [O.S. 25 November] 1895 – 12 August 1952) was a Russian Jewish poet and playwright who wrote predominantly in Yiddish.[1][2]

  1. ^ Peretz Markish at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ Leftwich, Joseph (1974). An anthology of modern Yiddish literature. Walter de Gruyter. p. 332.