Michael Lev
Michael (Mishe) Lev (3 July 1917 - 23 May 2013) was a Yiddish language writer from Podolia.

Life 
Lev was born in Pohrebysche, Ukraine.  He studied Yiddish language and literature in Moscow, and worked at a Yiddish publishing house, where his first publications appeared. During World War II Lev fought in the Soviet army, was taken prisoner, escaped, and joined the partisans.  His wartime experiences became the main theme of his writings.  He published 17 books in Yiddish, Russian and Hebrew.  He died, aged 95, in Rehovot, Israel.

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1917 births
2013 deaths
People from Pohrebyshche
Ukrainian Jews
Russian Jews
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Soviet partisans
Belarusian partisans
Yiddish-language writers
Soviet emigrants to Israel