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Apr 27, 1905 Stryi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine Died on 08 Aug 1996 (aged 91)
Polish journalist
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About Julian Stryjkowski
- Julian Stryjkowski (born Pesach Stark; April 27, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a Polish journalist and writer, notable for his social prose of radical leftist leanings.
- He was considered one of the best Polish-Jewish writers of the communist era.Stryjkowski was born April 27, 1905 in Stryj (Austrian partition, modern Ukraine), to a family of Hasidic Jews.
- He graduated from the Faculty of Polish Studies and literature of Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów and in 1932 started working as a teacher of the Polish language in a gymnasium in Plock in central Poland.
- Initially a Zionist, in 1934 he joined the delegalized Communist Party of Western Ukraine and began teaching his own pupils Communist ideology, for which he was arrested and imprisoned in 1935.
- Upon his release the following year he moved to Warsaw, where he started working as a journalist for various newspapers, and as a library clerk.
- About that time he also started his work on the Polish translation of Céline's Death on the Installment Plan.
