Alexander Penn

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Alexander Penn (Hebrew: אלכסנדר פן‎, 1906- April, 1972) was an Israeli poet.^[1]

Contents 1 Early years 2 Career 3 References 4 External links 5 See also

[edit] Early years

Penn 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. In 1927, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. He worked as a boxing trainer in Tel Aviv, as well as a farm hand, a construction worker and a guard.

[edit] Career

Penn began writing poetry in Hebrew, which he learned only after settling in Palestine. He published these poems in the daily Hebrew newspaper Davar and a variety of 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.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Grandson of Alexander Penn
• Alexander Penn's grandson ordained as Rabbi

[edit] See also

Shmuel Yerushalmi