Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko (Russian: Лев Моисе́евич Кви́тко, Yiddish: לייב קוויטקאָ) (October 15, 1890 – August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC).
He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952, together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets.
[1] He was born in a Ukrainian shtetl, attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys (cheder) and was orphaned early.
He moved to Kyiv in 1917 and soon became one of the leading Yiddish poets of the "Kiev Group".
By that time he was primarily writing verses for children and his style fully corresponded to the canons of socialist realism.