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Emmanuil Kazakevich

Emmanuil Genrikhovich Kazakevich (February 24, 1913 – September 22, 1962) was a Soviet writer, poet, and playwright of Jewish origin who wrote in both Yiddish and Russian. Born in Kremenchuk (then Imperial Russia, now Ukraine), he trained as an engineer and spent the early 1930s in Birobidzhan, where he worked as a kolkhoz chairman and theater director while beginning his literary career in Yiddish.

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