Dan Tsalka

Dan Tsalka, born in Warsaw on 19 March 1936, was taken by his family to the Soviet Union during the war, lived in Siberia and then in Kazakhstan, and returned to Poland at the age of ten, to Wrocław, where he studied the humanities and took up boxing. Arriving in Israel in 1957, he exchanged his first name Mietek for Dan, which his sister suggested to him in the Yavne transit camp, learned Hebrew at kibbutz Hatzor and served in the armoured corps. A translator and essayist, he edited the literary supplement of Lamerhav, received the Sapir Prize in 2004 and died in Tel Aviv on 15 June 2005.

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• Novelאלף לבבותDan Tsalka · 1991not translated into EnglishLiterature