Meir Bosak
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| Born | May 21, 1912 Kraków, Poland |
| Died | November 20, 1992 (aged 80) Israel |
| Occupation | Historian, writer |
Meir Bosak (Hebrew: מאיר בוסאק; May 21, 1912 – November 20, 1992) was a Polish-Israeli historian and writer.
Bosak was born in Kraków, Poland, in 1912. As a youth, he studied in Warsaw. From 1929, Bosak began publishing articles in Polish and in Hebrew on the history of Polish Jewry. He also wrote essays on Hebrew literature as well as stories and poems. During World War II, Bosak first lived in the Kraków Ghetto and subsequently was sent to the Płaszów concentration camp. Bosak survived the war due to the efforts of Oskar Schindler.[1] Following the war, Bosak emigrated to Israel settling in Tel Aviv.[2]
Published works
[edit]Bosak's published works include:
- Be-Nogah ha-Seneh (1933)
- Ve-Attah Eini Ra'atekha (1957)
- Ba-Rikkud ke-Neged ha-Levanah (1960)
- Aḥar Esrim Shanah (1963)
- Mul Ḥalal u-Demamah (1966)
- Sulam ve-Rosho (1978)
- Ẓamarot bi-Tefillah (1984)
- Rak Demamah po Titpalal (1990)
- Mul Sha'ar ha-Raḥamim (1995)
- Shorashim ve-Ẓamarot (1990)
References
[edit]- ^ "Meir Bosak, Poland". tst-massuah.scepia-sites.co.il.
- ^ Ḥanani, Y. She-Ḥazah mi-Besaro (1989).
External links
[edit]- Interview at the International Institute of Holocaust Studies
- Bosak Family website includes archival photos of Meir Bosak as well as manuscripts of poems written during the Holocaust
Categories:
- 1912 births
- 1992 deaths
- 20th-century Israeli poets
- 20th-century Israeli male writers
- 20th-century Polish male writers
- 20th-century Polish poets
- Gross-Rosen concentration camp survivors
- Hebrew-language writers
- Israeli historians
- Israeli male poets
- Kraków Ghetto inmates
- Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors
- Writers from Kraków
- Polish emigrants to Israel
- Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
- 20th-century Polish historians
- Polish male non-fiction writers
- Polish male poets
- Schindlerjuden