A chazan, composer, and conductor, Morogowski was born and raised in Radomyshl. He worked as a chazan all over Europe before immigrating to America in 1914. His time in Rivne gave him the nickname "Zaydl Rovner."
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An artist, Sacha was born in Radomyshl. His father died young, and his mother supported the families by renting rooms, first in Radomyshl then in Kyiv. Sacha studied at the College of Fine Arts in Odesa and moved to Paris in 1910. He fought in the French Army during World War I. His earlier work focused on his youth in Ukraine, although starting in 1919 he painted portraits of Parisians and worked as an illustrator for French magazines. Well-known in Montparnasse, he had the nickname "le Montparno des Montparnos." He was in Vichy France during World War II, and while he survived his closest artist friend, Samuel Granowsky, didn't. He suffered a devastating stroke in the 1960s, although he continued to draw until he died.
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A Yiddish writer, Dora was born and raised in Radomyshl. She began working in a textile factory as a teenager and became active in the Bund. Her husband Henry left for America a few weeks before World War I, leaving Dora in Radomyshl with their four children. She ran a maternity house in Radomyshl during the war and Russian Revolution. She left for America with her children in 1922 and settled in Chicago, where starting in 1940 she began publishing Yiddish stories based on her experiences in Radomyshl.
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A literary critic, Abram was born in Radomyshl. After finishing school he worked at a barracks factory office. In 1910, he moved to Kyiv and began studying law at Kyiv University. He was a volunteer in the Red Army from 1919 to 1921, after which he returned to Kyiv and switched to studying linguistics. He began writing and publishing poetry in Jewish periodicals, with his first collection of poetry, "Clarification," published in 1922. This was followed by "Arrival" in 1928 and "With My Young Class" in 1932. In 1935, he graduated from the Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He received his doctorate in 1947. In 1951, he was arrested as part of a wave of Soviet antisemitism and sentenced to ten years in the gulags. He was released in 1955 and returned to Kyiv, but he died from poor health in 1959.
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A Soviet Yiddish poet, Ryva was born to a poor Radomyshl family. Her parents died when she was young and she grew up in an orphanage during the Russian Revolution. She started working at a shoe factory in Kyiv when she was 15. Her poems were first published in 1928 and began appearing in Jewish periodicals all over the Soviet Union. She then attended the Kyiv Institute of Public Education, graduating from there in 1934. Her first collection of poems, "Call," was published around that time. She also attended and graduated from the Institute of Jewish Culture of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the 1930s and became a member of the Jewish section of the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers. Her second book of poems, "Bright Paths," was published in 1940.
During World War II, Ryva and her son were evacuated to Ufa. She returned to Kyiv after the war and began working as a textbook editor. In 1947, she published the Ukrainian book "The Girl from Ivankov." In 1952, while investigating the Holocaust in Chernivtsi, she was arrested as part of a larger wave of repression against Soviet Jewry. Despite falling seriously ill from the arrest, she was sentenced to ten years in the Intalag gulag. She spent the next four years in a camp for disabled prisoners. In 1956, her case was reviewed and she was rehabilitated and released. She then returned to Kyiv, where in 1961 her work as again published. She contributed to the creation of the Radomyshl Museum of History and Local Lore, which later dedicated an exhibition to her.
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A poet and translator, Grigoriy was born in Radomyshl to a family of traders and foresters. His name was originally Hodel Shabiyovych Korenberg, but he changed his name in the 1950s to hide his Jewish heritage during a wave of antisemitism. Following a Chekist raid in the 1930s, Grigoriy's family left Radomyshl for Baku. After serving in the Soviet Army during World War II, he began publishing his poems in local papers. He moved to Moscow with his family in the early 1960s, by which time two collections of his poems were published and he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.
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Herb himself was born in Los Angeles, but his father Louis Rabinowitz was a Radomyshl native who immigrated to America in 1913.
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