Naum Korzhavin
Naum Korzhavin · Arts & Literature
Poet / lyricist
1925, Kyiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) — 2018, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Soviet Union · United States
Naum Korzhavin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist
Naum Korzhavin, born Naum Mandel, was a major Russian poet whose plainspoken verse resisted Stalinist orthodoxy; arrested in 1947 and exiled to Siberia, he emigrated to the United States in 1973 and settled in Boston. His poems circulated widely in samizdat and became touchstones of dissident Russian literature. He was born into a secular Jewish family in Kyiv.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists
Poet / lyricist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists
