Alexander Penn

Alexander Penn

Alexander Penn ( _he. אלכסנדר פן, 1906- April, 1972) was an Israeli poet. [http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=198]

Early years

Penn was born in Nizhne Kolymsk, Russia. As a youth, he was a boxer. He moved to Moscow in 1920 to study cinema, and published his first poems in Russian that year. In 1927, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. He worked as a boxing trainer in Tel Aviv, as well as a farm hand, a construction worker and a guard.

Career

Penn began writing poetry in Hebrew, which he learned only after settling in Palestine. He published these poems in the daily Hebrew newspaper "Davar" and a variety of literary magazines. Penn was a devout Communist, and a member of the Israeli Communist Party. He edited the literary section of the party's paper, "Kol Ha'am".

References

External links

* [http://www.schechter.edu/news/media_0612_haaretz.htm Grandson of Alexander Penn]
* [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1162378496195 Alexander Penn's grandson ordained as Rabbi]

ee also

Shmuel Yerushalmi


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