Person

Latsman, Yehoshue

1904–1984

The Lithuanian poet Yoshue Latsman studied in Kaunas and became a teacher at the Tarbut school. His literary debut, with the publication, in 1930, of his poems in the Kaunas newspaper "Di yidishe shtime", was followed by a series of poems and essays appeared, in the 1930s, in several Yiddish- Lithuanian publications. With the German invasion of the Soviet Union Latsman left Lithuania and went first to Kazakhstan, then joined the Red Army. In 1947 he returned to Lihuania; he was a contributor to the Moscow Yiddish journal "Eynikayt". From 1948 to 1956 he was banished to the gulag. In 1961 he began contributing to the Soviet Yiddish Journal "Sovetish heymland". Latsman emigrated to Israel in 1971.