10 September 2018

Cimetière du Montparnasse revisited #5: Oïser Warszawski

'A l'écrivain sans sépulture
A la mémoire
de mon mari bien-aimé
OÏSER WARSZAWSKI
homme de lettres juif
assassiné â Auschwitz en 1944
â l'age de 46 ans'

Oïser Warszawski was a writer and art critic born in Poland and who wrote in Yiddish. His first novel, Shmuglers (1920), translated in several langages, is perhaps is work he is most remembered for.

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