Meir Bosak
Appearance
Meir Bosak | |
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Born | Kraków, Poland | May 21, 1912
Died | November 20, 1992 Israel | (aged 80)
Occupation | Historian, writer |
Meir Bosak (Hebrew: מאיר בוסאק) was a Polish-Israeli historian, writer and poet.
Bosak was born in Kraków, Poland in 1912. As a youth, he studied in Warsaw. From 1929, Bosak began publishing articles in Polish and in Hebrew on the history of Polish Jewry. He also wrote essays on Hebrew literature as well as stories and poems. During World War II, Bosak first lived in the Kraków Ghetto and subsequently was sent to the Płaszów concentration camp. Bosak survived the war due to the efforts of Oskar Schindler.[1] Following the war, Bosak emigrated to Israel settling in Tel Aviv.[2]
Published works
Bosak's published works include:
- Be-Nogah ha-Seneh (1933)
- Ve-Attah Eini Ra'atekha (1957)
- Ba-Rikkud ke-Neged ha-Levanah (1960)
- Aḥar Esrim Shanah (1963)
- Mul Ḥalal u-Demamah (1966)
- Sulam ve-Rosho (1978)
- Ẓamarot bi-Tefillah (1984)
- Rak Demamah po Titpalal (1990)
- Mul Sha'ar ha-Raḥamim (1995)
- Shorashim ve-Ẓamarot (1990)
References
- ^ "Meir Bosak, Poland". tst-massuah.scepia-sites.co.il.
- ^ Ḥanani, Y. She-Ḥazah mi-Besaro (1989).
External links
- Interview at the International Institute of Holocaust Studies
- Bosak Family website includes archival photos of Meir Bosak as well as manuscripts of poems written during the Holocaust
Categories:
- 1912 births
- 1992 deaths
- 20th-century Israeli poets
- 20th-century Israeli writers
- 20th-century Polish male writers
- 20th-century Polish poets
- Gross-Rosen concentration camp survivors
- Hebrew-language writers
- Holocaust survivors
- Israeli historians
- Israeli male poets
- Israeli male writers
- Israeli poets
- Kraków Ghetto inmates
- Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors
- Nazi concentration camp survivors
- People from Kraków
- Polish Jews
- Polish emigrants to Israel
- Polish historians
- Polish-language writers
- Polish male poets
- Schindlerjuden
- Writers from Kraków