Israel EmiotIsrael Emiot (1909-1978) was a Polish-born Yiddish poet who came to the United States before WWII. He published four books of poems in Poland in and in Russia where he went to escape the German Reich, and where he was confined to the Gulag for a time After coming to America he settled in Rochester, New York, published several more books of poems, and served as poet in residence at the Jewish Community Center. He died in Rochester in 1978. His prison memoir, The Birobidzhan Affair, is a poignant, captivating chronicle of the persecution of Jews and Jewish culture in the last years of Stalin's Russia. Read More Read Less