Manuvakh Dadashev (russian: Манувах Мардахаевич Дадашев, translit=; he, מנוחוב דדשב; 1913–1943) was a Soviet poet of

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origin. He wrote in a language of the Mountain Jew ( Juhuri).

Biography

Manuvakh Dadashev was born into a poor family in the city of Derbent in 1913."The Toiler", first as a distributor of letters, and then as a literary worker. In the same newspaper, he published his first poems. Dadashev studied at universities in

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and Moscow. He worked in Makhachkala at the institute. Collected and translated into Russian the folklore of the

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. He translated Russian poets into the language of Mountain Jews. Among the unfinished translations was " Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, on which he worked before the beginning of the World War II. When World War II began, Dadashev went to the front as a volunteer. During the war, he continued to write poems and stories, which were published in the newspaper ''

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''. In 1943, in a battle near Luhansk, senior lieutenant Dadashev was seriously wounded and soon died of his wounds. He was buried in Lugansk in a mass grave in the park named after "May 9". Dadashev was awarded medals: "For Courage" and "For the Defense of Stalingrad". Dadashev's poems were published in the ''Anthology of Mountain Jews poets'', ''Fruits of October'', and '' Judeo-Tat almanac''. Dadashev dedicated his poem ( Juhuri:''Du komz'') – "Two letters" to female emancipation. In 1969, the

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Book Publishing House posthumously published a book of poems. ''The Flame of October''.Ministry of culture of the republic of Dagestan
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Judeo-Tat literature Judeo-Tat literature is the literature of the Mountain Jews in the Juhuri language. History Judeo-Tat literature is rich in folklore. The most popular narrators of folklore at the beginning of the 20th century were Mardahai Ovsholum (1850-1925 ...

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