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Chaim Grade’s life and work spanned poetry and prose, Europe and America, pre- and post-Holocaust life, both the religious and secular worlds.
The story consists of a series of impassioned debates between Grade’s barely fictional alter ego Chaim Vilner and his friend from his yeshiva days, Hersh Rasseyner. (In Lithuanian yeshivas, students were called by the name of the city or town from which they came.)
Chaim Grade ranks among the most important Yiddish writers of the post-Holocaust period. His unsentimental depictions of rabbinic high culture and life on the Jewish streets of Vilna both describe memorable characters drawn from different strata of society, and dramatize the contest of ideas and moral impulses that defined his community in the ...
CHAIM GRADE (1910–1982) is “one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent writers of Yiddish fiction” (The New York Times). Born in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, Grade fled to New York in 1948, after losing his first wife and his mother to the Holocaust.
Feb 26, 2023 · Chaim Grade’s typewriter, preserved in the condition it was found when the Yiddish author died in 1982, contains what are apparently the last lines he ever wrote. (New York Jewish Week via JTA)
Chaim Grade (April 4, 1910, in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania] – April 26, 1982, Los Angeles, California, Buried in Riverside Cemetery Saddle Brook, NJ [1]) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century.
GRADE, Chaim. Nationality: Russian. Born: Vilna, Lithuania, 1910 (immigrated to the United States, 1948, naturalized citizen, 1960). Family: Married (wife died in the Holocaust). Career: Writer and journalist. Member, Young Vilna writers' group, 1930s.
