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Arts & Literature
Samuel Marshak
Who
Samuel Marshak · Arts & Literature
What
Poet / lyricist
When
1887, Voronezh, Russia — 1964, Moscow, Soviet Union
Where
Russia · Soviet Union
Biography
Samuel Marshak is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist
How & why
Samuel Marshak was a Russian and Soviet poet, translator and children's author, one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature and celebrated for his translations of Shakespeare's sonnets and Robert Burns. Born into a Jewish family in Voronezh, he studied in England and in his youth worked in the Zionist movement and briefly in Ottoman Palestine. He was Jewish.
Sources & external links
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists
Contributions & Sources
Poet / lyricist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists
