Semyon Grigorevich Frug
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Semyon Grigorevich Frug (1860–1916) was an author
. He was born into a family of Jewish farmers in a Yiddish shtetl
in southern Ukraine
. From 1912 until his death in 1916, Frug lived in Odessa
, where the sixth edition of his three-volume "Complete Works" was published in 1913.
Frug's development as a writer, narrator and reader reached its full expression in Odessa, which was a center of Jewish literary activity. His Jewish contemporaries recalled the talent with which he read his work or declaim it by hearth at literary evenings. Frug's works were mainly written in Russian
with only a few stories written in Yiddish
, itself a reflection of the environment in which members of the Jewish intelligentsia moved at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. In both his poems and prose he described with bitter humor and ruthless realism, the life of the Jewish settlers and their relationships with their Ukrainian and Russian neighbors.
Author
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. He was born into a family of Jewish farmers in a Yiddish shtetl
Shtetl
A shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe until The Holocaust. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania...
in southern Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. From 1912 until his death in 1916, Frug lived in Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
, where the sixth edition of his three-volume "Complete Works" was published in 1913.
Frug's development as a writer, narrator and reader reached its full expression in Odessa, which was a center of Jewish literary activity. His Jewish contemporaries recalled the talent with which he read his work or declaim it by hearth at literary evenings. Frug's works were mainly written in Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
with only a few stories written in Yiddish
Yiddish language
Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
, itself a reflection of the environment in which members of the Jewish intelligentsia moved at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. In both his poems and prose he described with bitter humor and ruthless realism, the life of the Jewish settlers and their relationships with their Ukrainian and Russian neighbors.