Background
MARKISH, Perets was born on November 25, 1895 in village Polonnoye, Volhynian Province.
MARKISH, Perets was born on November 25, 1895 in village Polonnoye, Volhynian Province.
Studied at Shanyavskiy People’s University. Then studied independently.
Manual worker at the age of 8. Self-taught, later attended the Shaniavskii People’s University. First publication, 1917.
Emigrated, 1921. First to describe a Jewish pogrom in verse (Kucha), 1922. Returned to the USSR, 1926. Joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1942.
In his poems and novels, described the life of the Jewish people. Arrested during Stalin’s anti-Semitic campaign and executed. Rehabilitated in 1954.
The latest edition of the Bol'shaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia (vol. 15, 1974), and the Lileraturnyi Entsikopedicheskii Slovar' (Moscow, 1987) do not mention the circumstances of his death. Both publications give the year of his death as 1952, while the former gives the day of his death as 12 August, both of which are disputed by his family and many Soviet Jewish scholars.
Communist Party member from 1942.