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Peretz Markish (; ; in Polonnoye, currently Ukraine
Ukraine

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 - 12 August 1952 in Moscow
Moscow

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) was a Jewish Soviet writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 who wrote in Yiddish. His very distant ancestors lived in Spain. As a child he attended a cheder
Cheder

A Cheder is a traditional elementary school teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language....
 and was singing in the choir of the local synagogue
Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
. He served as a private in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I
World War I

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Peretzmarkish
Peretz Markish (; ; in Polonnoye, currently Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 - 12 August 1952 in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
) was a Jewish Soviet writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 who wrote in Yiddish. His very distant ancestors lived in Spain. As a child he attended a cheder
Cheder

A Cheder is a traditional elementary school teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language....
 and was singing in the choir of the local synagogue
Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
. He served as a private in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
. In the early twenties together with Leib Kvitko
Leib Kvitko

Leib Kvitko was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee . He was one of the editors of Einigkeit and of the Heymland, a literary magazine....
 and others, he was a member of the Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 group of Yiddish poets. He was an author of numerous poems, plays and several novels. His poetry was translated into Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 by Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, a Russian poet credited with a large influence on Russian literature.Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as , her tragic masterpiece about the Great Purge....
 among others. He spent time living in Berlin
Berlin

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, Paris
Paris

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, London
London

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, Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
 and Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 before returning to Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
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Initially, it was Markish who was supposed to be accompanying Mikhoels on the trip to the U.S.A. and other countries, but Markish was replaced by Itzik Feffer
Itzik Feffer

Itzik Feffer , also Fefer was a Soviet Union Yiddish poet who fell victim to Stalin's purges.Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod uyezd of Kiev guberniya, Imperial Russia....
, an informer to the NKVD
NKVD

The NKVD or People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the leading secret police organization of the Soviet Union that was responsible for Soviet political repressions during the Stalinism era....
 secret police. Markish was a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in Samara, Russia in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities. It was designed to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the Western world....
 and together with a number of other Yiddish writers became a victim of the Night of the Murdered Poets
Night of the Murdered Poets

The Night of the Murdered Poets refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent Yiddish writers, poets, artists, musicians and actors of the Soviet Union were secretly executed on the orders from Joseph Stalin in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow....
.

Works

Here is a sample of his poetry translated into Russian by A. Klenov. The poem is entitled The Ghetto Dancer:

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