In Opposite Directions

Hirsh Bloshtein

ca. 1930

They would run into each other twice a day: early in the morning, going to work; and in the evening, coming back. They would see one another on the same sidewalk, but they were headed in opposite directions—his factory was to the east and her office to the west. They would look at each other for just a moment, then pass by—hurriedly, so as not to…

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Hirsh Bloshtein

1895–1978

The Yiddish poet and short-story writer Hirsh Bloshtein was the son of a poor tailor in Kedainiai, Lithuania, but broke with traditional Judaism and embraced secularism and socialism. He taught in Jewish schools in Lithuania and Ukraine and in 1925 immigrated to Argentina. There he worked in left-wing Jewish schools, wrote for the communist press, and edited the radical literary monthly Naye velt. In 1931 he was arrested for his communist activity and deported to the Soviet Union. He survived the Holocaust in Kazakhstan and, unusually for Soviet literary figures, died a natural death.

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