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November 22, 1974 (85 years old)
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Taurus
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Alter Esselin
Alter Esselin, was a Russian-born American poet who wrote in the Yiddish language. He was born in Chernigov, in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire on April 23, 1889, and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 22, 1974. In fifty years of his life, he wrote and had published several hundred poems in such publications as Di goldene keyt, Di veg, Kundus, The Zukunft or Di Tsukunft and many others. His work is discussed in Sol Liptzin's A History of Yiddish Literature and is included in Nachman Mayzel's America in Yiddishen Vort. Three books of his poetry were published. The first was Knoytn in 1927; The second, Unter der last, in 1936, and the third, Lider fun a mdbarnik in 1954 for which The Jewish Book Council gave him The Harry Kovner Award as the best collection of Yiddish poetry of the year, in 1955.
BornOrkeh Serebrenik, April 23, 1889, Chernigov, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedNovember 22, 1974, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
OccupationPoet, Carpenter
LanguageYiddish, English
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipAmerican
Notable awardsThe Harry Kovner Award for the best collection of Yiddish poetry of the year 1954
SpouseBecky (nee Friedland)
ChildrenJoseph, Jacob

About Alter Esselin

Poet Alter Esselin was born in Russia on April 23, 1889. He dies at the age of 85, on November 22, 1974.

Knoytn, Unter der Last, and other works by the Russian-American Yiddish poet. He received the coveted Harry Kovner Award for Yiddish poetry in 1954.

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Alter Esselin before becoming famous

Alter Esselin was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1889 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Ox (牛).

When he was ten years old, his father died, and his mother apprenticed him to a carpenter.

Achievement of Alter Esselin

Poems about poverty and loneliness recurred regularly in his work.

Alter Esselin's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He married Becky Friedland and had two boys with her.

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Another prominent Yiddish literary figure was Novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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