Moyshe Altman

Moyshe Altman (Yiddish: משה אַלטמאַן; Russian: Моисей Элевич Альтман; Romanian: Moisei Altman) (May 7, 1890, Lipcani, Bessarabia - October 21, 1981, Chernivtsi, USSR) was a Yiddish writer.

[1] In 1914, he published his first poems in Unser lebn, a Yiddish journal in Odessa.

[2] In 1919 he moved to Chernivtsi where he published poetry and literary criticism in local journals such as Frayhayt and Dos Naye Leben.

[3] With the rise to power of Ion Antonescu and the growing antisemitism, he moved with Yankev Shternberg to Chișinău, where he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.

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Bas-relief of Moses Altman, on the house where he lived, on Olha Kobylianska Street in Chernivtsi