Yudl Yoffe

Left an orphan early, he was brought up by his sister in Nizhyn, worked as an apprentice for a tailor, joined the revolutionary movement and, as an agitator, traveled around the Jewish miasteczkoes of Ukraine and Bessarabia, was arrested.

He began his literary career in 1915 with the publication of the story «Dos Eidem»[3] (Son-in-law) in the magazine «Die idische Welt» (The Yiddish World) (1915).

At one time he was engaged in sculpture (self-taught), took part in the Kyiv exhibition of Jewish artists in 1920.

The following books were published: «In Kessl grub» (In the Boiler-Pit; 1929), «A dire» (Flat; 1929), «In groissn NEP Hoif» (In the Large NEP Homestead; 1929), «In Kamf» (In the Fight; 1932), «Onwuks» (Tumor; 1932), «Fun trep, zu trep» (From the Steps to the Steps; 1933), dedicated to the civil war in Ukraine, the years of the New Economic Policy, and socialist construction.

Yoffe is a realist writer leaning towards portraiture and lyrical sketching.