[Cz-L] Josef Burg

Gabi Weissmann wrote:

<<Yesterday the Austrian paper "Der Standard" brought an obituary on
Josef Burg's death. Today the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ),
one of Germany's main papers, also published in the "Feuilleton" pages
an article on Burg...>>

On Tuesday, JTA (the Jewish news service) reported:

ROME (JTA) -- The award-winning Yiddish author Josef Burg has died at
the age of 97 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

Burg died Monday of a stroke, according to Austria's Theodor Kramer
Society, which presented Burg with a literary award earlier this year.

Before World War I Chernivtsi, known as Czernowitz in German and
Yiddish, was the capital of the Bucovina region of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire and a focal point of Yiddish language and
literature. The region came under Romanian rule after World War I.

Born in 1912 in the nearby town of Vishnits, Burg lost his entire
family in the Holocaust. He survived by fleeing to the Soviet Union.
He published his first story in 1934 in the Yiddish newspaper
Chernovitser Bleter. Romanian authorities banned the newspaper in
1938, but Burg revived it as a monthly in 1990.

He continued writing and publishing well into his 90s, receiving
several awards such as Israel's Segal Prize for Yiddish writing.

==

Chances ar that many Jewish newspapers will publish the JTA article in
the next week or two.

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills, New York, USA
genmaven_at_gmail.com

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