Career
He was one of the editors of Eynikayt (the JAC"s newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine. Kvitko was rehabilitated in 1955. He was born in a Ukrainian shtetl, attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys (Cheder) and was orphaned early.
He moved to Kiev in 1917 and soon became one of the leading Yiddish poets of the "Kiev group".
He lived in Germany between 1921 and 1925 joining there the Communist Party of Germany and publishing critically acclaimed poetry. He returned to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1925 and moved to Moscow in 1936, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1939.
