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World Jewish News
Obituary for Poet Michael Gendelev
30.03.2009
According to OpenSpace, on the night of the 29th of March, the poet Michael Gendelev has passed on. He had been 58 years old. The circumstances of his death are yet unknown.
Michael Gendelev was born in Leningrad in 1950. He had finished the Leningrad Medical Institute, worked as a doctor in sports medicine. He began writing poems in 1967, and had been among the people who wrote uncensored poetry. In 1977 he emigrated to Israel, where he was a doctor (both civil and military), a journalist, and a political technologist. In 1992 he became the president of the Jerusalem literary club.
Gendelev published nine books of poetry and the novel "The Great Moscow Journey." He translated many pieces of classical and modern Hebrew poetry.
Michael Gendelev is the laureate of literary awards – the Etinger Prize and the Tsaban Prize. He is considered to be one of the founders of the concept "Russian-language literature of Israel."
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