Ryhor Reles

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Ryhor Reles
Ryhor Reles

Ryhor Reles (Belarusian: Рыгор Рэлес Russian: Гирш Релес) (April 23, 1913 - September 19, 2004) - a Jewish-Belarusian writer, he was one of the last writers in Belarus that wrote in Yiddish.

He was born in 1913 in a village Chashniki, Vitebsk region, studied pedagogy in Vitebsk pedagogical institute, then studied Yiddish philology in Minsk. His first poem was published in a Soviet Jewish newspaper "Junger Arbeiter" in 1931. He wrote poems and prose in Yiddish and also several poems in Russian. Most of his works were translated and published in Belarusian.