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Dr. Miroslav Feldman (28 December 189930 May 1976) was a Croatian-Jewish poet and writer. Feldman was born in
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on 28 December 1899. He studied medicine in
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and
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. After graduation, he returned to
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and worked as a physician in Virovitica,
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,
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,
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and Zagreb. During
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he joined the
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, where he helped organize the
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. Feldman was the president of the Croatian and Yugoslav
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. He began his career as a poet, but he was most notable as a drama writer. Feldman wrote a psychological drama with elements of the grotesque, and works with a strong social critique, in which he satirically speaks of occurrence in the province and life of the higher society. Feldman died in Zagreb on 30 May 1976 and was buried at the
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. Gradska groblja Zagreb: Miroslav Feldman, Mirogoj Ž-4A-II/I-121


Works

* "Arhipelag snova" * "Vožnja" * "Zec" * "Profesor Žič" * "U pozadini" * "Iz mraka"


References


Bibliography

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Feldman, Miroslav 1899 births 1976 deaths People from Virovitica Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery Croatian Jews Jews from Austria-Hungary Croatian Austro-Hungarians Croatian male poets Jewish poets Jewish Austrian writers Yugoslav Partisans members Croatian people of World War II Vladimir Nazor Award winners 20th-century Croatian poets 20th-century Croatian male writers Jews in the Yugoslav Partisans