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Menke Katz was born on 12 April, 1906 in Svintsyan, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Švenčionys, Lithuania), is a Russian-American poet and writer. Discover Menke Katz'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 85 years old?

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Occupation Poet, writer
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 12 April, 1906
Birthday 12 April
Birthplace Svintsyan, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Švenčionys, Lithuania)
Date of death 24 April, 1991
Died Place Spring Glen, New York, U.S.
Nationality Russia

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Children Dovid Katz, Troim Katz Handler

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1906

Menke Katz (Yiddish: מעינקע קאַץ; ; April 12, 1906 – April 24, 1991) was an award-winning Yiddish-language and English-language poet and writer of Lithuanian-Jewish descent.

He was one of few Yiddish poets based in the United States whose original English poetry also gained prominence.

He was an experimentalist of form and an opponent of rhyme, particularly in his English writing.

He was the father of Dovid Katz.

On the second night of Passover in 1906, Menke Katz was born in present-day Švenčionys in Lithuania, approximately 50 miles northeast of Vilnius, to father Hirshe-Dovid Katz and mother Badonna Gubersky.

1914

In 1914, his father immigrated alone to the United States through Ellis Island.

During World War I, his family lived in Micháleshik (now Mikhalishki, Belarus).

His early poetic inspiration developed while in Micháleshik, influenced by his wartime struggles, the death of his eldest brother, and his near-death visions caused by the Spanish flu.

1920

These events provided the impetus for his remaining family to immigrate to New York City in 1920.

Soon, his family was reunited with his father in Passaic, New Jersey.

As a teenager, he moved with a cousin to New York City's Lower East Side where he lived and worked for decades.

Katz published his first poem in Spartak, a publication edited by Vladimir Mayakovsky.

He later joined the leftist Yiddish writers' group that became Proletpen (Yiddish: פּראָלעטפּען).

1932

In 1932, he was expelled from the group for publishing his first book, a poetic drama with erotic themes, titled Dray shvester (Yiddish: דרײַ שװעסטער; "Three sisters").

1938

In 1938, he published his two-volume epic, Brenendik shtetl (Yiddish: ברענענדיק שטעטל; "Burning village"), that featured descriptions of shtetl life and its lack of appreciation for socialist realism.

His epic also described the experiences of immigration to New York City.

He soon published a manifesto titled Der braver pakhdn (Yiddish: דער בראַװער פּחדן; "The brave coward"), advocating for nonpartisan Yiddish poetry.

1944

Beginning in 1944, he started writing in more universal themes, notably with his book Inmitn tog (Yiddish: אינמיטן טאָג; "Midday") in 1954.

It was around this time he began writing in English.

1956

In 1956, he published A Patched Window in Commentary.

He also began publishing frequently in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and Poet Lore, alongside some other English publications.

1959

In 1959, he was arrested in Israel for speaking Yiddish to his son in public.

1965

In 1965, he published his first English book titled Land of Manna that spoke to the nature of both American city life and shtetl life.

He founded and was the longtime editor of Bitterroot Quarterly Poetry Magazine which sought unknown talent in poetry.

He published 18 books—9 in Yiddish and 9 in English.

His works have been featured in 21 languages, including French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, and Lithuanian.

In 1965, his book of poetry Land of Manna was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

1970

In 1970, he won his first Stephen Vincent Benét Narrative Poetry Award, receiving a second in 1974 for his World of Old Abe.

1972

His 1972 English work titled Burning Village was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

At his home in Spring Glen, New York, Katz died from a heart attack at the age of 85 in his sleep.

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1978

In 1978, he left New York City with his wife and moved to a mountain cabin in Spring Glen, New York where he lived for the remainder of his life.

2005

In 2005, Benjamin and Barbara Harshav translated his 9 Yiddish books into English in Menke: The Complete Yiddish Poems of Menke Katz.

He also worked as a Yiddish instructor.