Aron Vergelis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aron Vergelis

Date of Birth: 07-May-1918

Place of Birth: Liubar, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1999

Profession: poet

Nationality: Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Aron Vergelis (Yiddish: ???? ????????; Russian: ???´? ?´???????? ?????´???; born 7 May 1918 in Lyubar (now in Zhitomyr Oblast), died 7 April 1999 in Moscow) was a Soviet poet and journalist of Jewish descent who wrote in Yiddish. Vergelis attended high school in Birobidzhan, Soviet Union, where his parents had moved in 1932 (cf Jewish Autonomous Oblast).
He published his first works in 1935 and his first collection of poems in 1940, the same year he graduated from the Lenin Moscow Pedagogical Institute.
He took part in World War II, worked as an editor of Yiddish-language radio broadcasts and after the war as secretary of the Jewish department of the Soviet Writers' Union.He was one of the few Jewish writers who managed to avoid the purges of 1948–1953.
In 1955, he became a member of the CPSU.
From 1961 on, he served as editor-in-chief of the Yiddish language journal Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland) while participating in Soviet anti-Zionist campaigns.