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Chaim Grade was born on 4 April, 1910 in Vilnius, Lithuania, is an American writer and poet. Discover Chaim Grade's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation Writer, Poet
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 4 April, 1910
Birthday 4 April
Birthplace Vilnius, Lithuania
Date of death 26 April, 1982
Died Place The Bronx, New York
Nationality Lithuania

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1878

He studied for several years with Reb Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, the Chazon Ish (1878–1953), one of observant Judaism's great Torah scholars.

1910

Chaim Grade (חיים גראַדע) (April 4, 1910 – June 26, 1982) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century.

Grade was born in Vilnius, Russian Empire and died in The Bronx, New York.

He is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, New Jersey.

Grade was raised Orthodox-leaning, and he studied in yeshiva as a teenager, but ended up with a secular outlook, in part due to his poetic ambitions.

Losing his family in the Holocaust, he resettled in New York, and increasingly took to fiction, writing in Yiddish.

Initially he was reluctant to have his work translated.

He was praised by Elie Wiesel as "one of the great—if not the greatest—of living Yiddish novelists."

1932

In 1932, Grade began publishing stories and poems in Yiddish, and in the early 1930s was among the founding members of the "Young Vilna" experimental group of artists and writers.

He developed a reputation as one of the city's most articulate literary interpreters.

He fled the German invasion of Vilnius in World War II and sought refuge in the Soviet Union.

In the Holocaust he lost his wife Frumme-Liebe (daughter of the Rabbi of Glebokie) and his mother Vella Grade Rosenthal (daughter of Rabbi Rafael Blumenthal).

1948

When the war ended, he lived briefly in Poland and France before relocating to the United States in 1948.

1961

Grade's most highly acclaimed novels, The Agunah (1961, tr. 1974) and The Yeshiva (2 vol., 1967–68, tr. 1976–7), deal with the philosophical and ethical dilemmas of Jewish life in prewar Lithuania, particularly dwelling on the Novardok Mussar movement.

These two works were translated from the original Yiddish into English by Curt Leviant.

Grade's short story, "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner," describes the chance meeting of a Holocaust survivor with an old friend from the mussar Yeshiva.

The narrator has lost his faith, while the friend has continued to lead a pious and devoted religious life.

The former friends debate the place of religion in the postmodern world.

The character Hersh Rasseyner is based on Gershon Liebman, a friend of Grade's from yeshiva who built Navardok yeshivas all over France.

Grade recounted that he had a short conversation with Liebman, and created this story on what he imagined Liebman would say to him if he had the words.

The story has been made into a film, The Quarrel, and a play.

While less famous than Isaac Bashevis Singer or Sholem Aleichem, Chaim Grade is considered among the foremost stylists in Yiddish.

His work is now hard to find in English.

His papers were very numerous and consumed much space of the apartment he shared with his wife Inna in the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the Northwest Bronx.

The public administrator of his papers, Bonnie Gould, made requests to several institutions, including Harvard University and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research to assist in cataloging Grade's papers.

1970

In 1970 he won the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters.

Chaim Grade, the son of Shlomo Mordecai Grade, a Hebrew teacher and maskil (advocate of the Haskalah, the European Jewish Enlightenment), received a secular as well as Jewish religious education.

2010

Grade's second wife, Inna (née Hecker), translated a number of his books into English; she died in New York City on May 2, 2010.

Several books were also translated to Hebrew and published in Israel.

Grade's postwar poetry is primarily concerned with Jewish survival in the wake of the Holocaust.

By the end of August 2010, the papers had been transferred to YIVO's offices, for sorting.

2013

In 2013 the Public Administrator of Bronx County awarded the YIVO Institute and the National Library of Israel rights to the estate.

In accordance with the terms of the agreement, the assets of the estate will be permanently housed at YIVO in New York City.

2020

Materials will be shared and made available to the National Library of Israel once its new building opens in Jerusalem in 2020.

YIVO and the National Library of Israel have digitized the entire archive and made it accessible online.