Moyshe Kulbak

Moyshe Kulbak (; ; 18961937) was a Belarusian Jewish writer who wrote in Yiddish.

Biography Born in Smarhon, Belarus, to a Jewish family, Kulbak studied at the famous Volozhin Yeshiva.

During World War I he lived in Kovno (today Kaunas, Lithuania), where he began to write poetry in Hebrew, before switching to Yiddish. He made his publishing debut in Yiddish in 1916, By 1928 he became disappointed with the literary atmosphere in Poland, and decided to return to Minsk (capital of the Soviet Belarus), where much of his family lived, and where there was a lively Yiddish literary scene.