WJC International Yiddish Center
Moyshe Kulbak, the Bard of Lite and Raysn
Siarhiej Šupa, linguist, translator, journalist at Radio Liberty, Belarusian Service (Prague). In this lecture he talks about unique personality of Yiddish writer Moshe Kulbak and his legacy. How it happened that the most famous and most translated writer who was living in Kovno, Vilne, Minsk, three cities that at that time belonged to three different countries – Kaunas in Lithuania, Vilno in Poland, and Minsk in Soviet Belarus, is barely known to modern reader. Why we know so little about his childhood, education and other facts? What was he writing about? Siarhiej describes unknown facts and opens the beauty of Kulbak's creativity.
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