Alexander Penn

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Alexander Penn (1906-April 1972) was an Israeli poet. He was born in Nizhne Kolymsk, Russia. As a youth, he was a boxer. He moved to Moscow in 1920 to study cinema, and published his first poems in Russian that year.^[1] In 1927, he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine. He worked as a boxing trainer in Tel Aviv, as well as a farm hand, a construction worker and a guard. He began writing poetry in Hebrew, a language he did not speak at the time of his immigration, in 1929, and published them in the daily Davar as well as in several literary magazines. Penn was a devout Communist, and a member of the Israeli Communist Party. He edited the literary section of the party's paper Kol Ha'am