Josef Burg (May 30, 1912 – August 10, 2009) was an award-winning Jewish Soviet Yiddish writer, author, publisher and journalist.
[1] The region became part of Romania following World War I. Burg published his first professional writing in the Chernovitser Bleter, a Yiddish newspaper, in 1934.
[1] The Romanian government closed and banned the Chernovitser Bleter in 1938, on charges of Bolshevik propaganda.
[1] Burg survived the Holocaust during World War II, but lost his entire family.
[1] Josef Burg died of a stroke on August 10, 2009, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, at the age of 97.