Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in the Second World War

Rina Lapidus is an Associate Professor in the Comparative Literature Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Introduction: Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in the Second World War 1. Jack Althausen (1907-1942): Communist Fanaticism against the Background 2. Vladimir Avruschenko: (1908-1941): Complex Poet and Communist Warrior 3. Buzi Olevsky (1908-1941): Learned Researcher of Yiddish Culture, Gifted Yiddish Writer and Poet 4. Motl Hartzman (1909-1941): Dreams of a Better Life which Never Came True 5: Elena Shirman (1908-1942): Nothing Sweeter than the Body of a Beloved Man 6. Leonid Vilkomir (1912-1942): Passionate Poetry of Work and Freedom 7. Henikh Shvedikh (1914-1942): the Harsh Destiny of the Jewish People and of One of Its Sons – a Jewish Poet 8. Aron Kopshtein (1915-1940): Death of Mother as a Life-Long Trauma 9. Leonid Shersher (1916-1942): Dreaming as a Philosophy of Life 10. Pavel Kogan (1918-1942): Poet of Romantic Adventures 11. Pinn Vintman (1918-1942): the Poetry of Death in War 12. Boris Smolensky (1921-1941): Mature Poetry of a Young Genius 13. Vsevolod Bagritzky (1922-1942): the World War Two as a Child's Game 14. Zachar Gorodissky (1923-1943): Poetry of Happy Expectations of Life 15. Leonid Rosenberg (1924-1944): Affection for Dear Mama as a Refuse from Death Conclusion: The Genre of "Death Poetry"