Dovid Bergelson

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Yiddish writer modernist writer person writer

Dovid Bergelson was a prominent early 20th-century Yiddish modernist writer known for his psychologically nuanced prose and portrayal of Jewish life in Eastern Europe.

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Yiddish writer → modernist writer → person → writer →
affiliation	Soviet Yiddish literary establishment →
causeOfDeath	Shooting → execution →
countryOfCitizenship	Russian Empire → Soviet Union →
dateOfBirth	1884-08-12 →
dateOfDeath	1952-08-12 →
ethnicGroup	Jews →
familyName	Bergelson →
genre	modernist literature → novel → psychological fiction → short story →
givenName	Dovid →
languageOfWorkOrName	Yiddish →
mainSubject	Jewish life in Eastern Europe → alienation → assimilation → shtetl life →
mannerOfDeath	extrajudicial killing →
movement	Yiddish modernism → modernism →
name	Dovid Bergelson →
nativeLanguage	Yiddish →
notableWork	Arum vokzal (At the Depot) → Nokh alemen (When All Is Said and Done) → Opgang (Descent) →
occupation	journalist → novelist → short story writer → writer →
placeOfBirth	Kiev Governorate NERFINISHED → Ovruch → Russian Empire →
placeOfDeath	Moscow → Russian SFSR NERFINISHED → Soviet Union →
residence	Berlin → Kiev NERFINISHED → Moscow →
victimOf	Night of the Murdered Poets → Stalinist purges →
workLocation	Berlin → Kiev NERFINISHED → Moscow →
writingStyle	impressionistic narration → psychologically nuanced prose →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Yiddish literature →	hasNotableAuthor
I. L. Peretz →	influenced
Dovid Bergelson →	name