What is Semyon Frug?
[[File:Frug Shimon.jpg|thumb|Frug Shimon]] '''Semyon Grigorevich Frug''' (born in 1860) was a writer. He was born into a family of Jewish farmers in southern [[Ukraine]]. From 1912 until his death in 1916, he lived in [[Odesa]], where the sixth edition of his three-volume ''Complete Works'' was published in 1913. His talent was at its best in Odesa. Frug's works were mainly written in [[Russian language|Russian]] with a few stories written in [[Yiddish]]. In his writing, he described the life of the Jewish colonists, their relationships with their Ukrainian and Russian neighbors, and the disagreements and occasional arguments about various Yiddish dialects. Many of Frug's poems were set to music and performed on stage. {{DEFAULTSORT:Frug, Semyon}} [[Category:Ukrainian writers]] [[Category:Ukrainian poets]] [[Category:1860 births]] [[Category:1916 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}