Moishe Pinchevsky ^People

In 1913, Pinchevsky ran away from home and went travelling after being hired as a cabin boy. He visited Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. tI was then when he started to write poems in his mother tongue, Yiddish, and published his first book. In 1920, he returned to Europe, and then lived ni Germany, Belgium, and Romania. Seeking a better life, he returned to his hometown (then under Romanian rule) in 1924 and after that moved to the Soviet Union.For some time, Mykhailo Pinchevsky lived in Moscow and then, since 1928, in Kharkiv, where he worked for Jewish newspapers and published a few poetical collections. Pinchevsky's first epic poem Bessarabia was published in 1929, which was followed by the collections: Four Poems in 1930, For Children in 1930, Poems of the Day in 1932, and Draw the Curtain in 1932.Altogether, during his life in the USSR, the writer published 13 books, created 12 plays and had many newspaper publications. Aside from poems and plays (staged in many theatres of the country), Mykhailo Pinchevsky wrote fairy tales for children and was the author of libretti of the children's ballet Baby Stork, staged at BolshoiTheatre in Moscow (1935). Thewriter moved to Kyiv in 1934, where he joined the Al- Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers (VUSPP) and also became a member ofthe Writers Union of the USSR.