Yefim Krimerman (1923–2015) was a Soviet

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n poet, lyricist and journalist in the Romanian language. In he 1980 emigrated for a short time to Israel, and then settled in Germany. There he worked at Free Europe radio under the pseudonym Grigore Singurel

Biography

Yefim Krimerman was born in Bălţi, in 1923 in a Jewish family. He graduated from the Philological Faculty of

Moldova State University Moldova State University (USM; Romanian language, Romanian: ''Universitatea de Stat din Moldova'') is a university located in Chișinău, Moldova. It was founded in 1946, and initially had five faculties, Physics and Mathematics, Geology and Ped ...

. Singurel worked as a lecturer and musicologist of the Moldavan State Philharmonic Society. In 1980 he moved to

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, but soon moved to

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, where he worked for

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Works

* Grigore Singurel, Moldavia on the Barricades of Perestroika, 1989

Lyrics for songs

* De ce plâng chitarele? (1969) * Cântă un artist (1969) * Pe strada însorită (1969) (composer

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) * Fără tine (1969) (composer Arkady Luxemburg)

Bibliography

* Sovetskaya Moldavia, Chişinău, "The 'Knight' of the Lie and Slander" in

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, 4 September 1984, p. 3.

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1923 births Bessarabian Jews Moldovan Jews Moldovan journalists Moldovan male journalists Moldovan anti-communists Moldova State University alumni Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty people 2015 deaths Soviet emigrants to Israel {{Moldova-bio-stub