Alexander Penn
Israeli poet (1906–1972)
Alexander Penn (Hebrew: אלכסנדר פן, Russian: Александр Пэнн; 14 February 1906 – 19 April 1972) was an Israeli poet.
Biography
Avraham (Alexander) Pepliker-Stern (later Penn) was born in Yakymivka, Russian Empire, present-day Ukraine. According to one version of his biography, his father, Yosef Stern, ran a heder (a Jewish religious school for young boys) and taught Hebrew. As a youth, Penn was a boxer. He moved to Moscow in 1920, to study cinema, and published his first poems in Russian that year. In 1927, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. He worked as a boxing trainer in Tel Aviv, as well as a farm hand, a construction worker and a guard. In Russia, Yosef Stern had changed the family name to Pepliker to avoid military service. Penn's created a nom de plume by taking the "peh" from Pepliker and the final "nun" from Stern. While he was married to Bella Don (1910 - 1991), with whom he had married in 1928, he had a romantic relationship with actress Hanna Rovina, with whom he had a daughter, Ilana (1934 - 2020).
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