Igor Guberman
Igor Mironovich Guberman , bornJuly 1936, Kharkov is a Russian writer and poet of Jewish ancestry since 1988 lives in Israel. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains, called gariki in Russian . . These short poems always feature an abab rhyme scheme, employ various poetic meters, and cover a wide range of subjects including antisemitism, immigrant life, antireligious sentiment, and the authors lovehate relationship with Russia.
Igor Guberman was born in Kharkov on July 7, 1936. After high school, he entered the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering where, in contrast to a number of more prestigious Russian universities, there was not a maximum quota for Jews. In 1958, he graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked as an electrical engineer for several years and wrote on the side in his spare time. Toward the end of the 1950s, he was introduced to Alexander Ginzburg, who published Syntax, one of the first samizdat periodicals, as well as to other underground philosophers, writers, and artists. For some time he worked as a secretary to the great Russian poet David Samoylov, and also as a ghostwriter for hire.
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