Joseph Bovshover Explained

Joseph Bovshover
Native Name:	יוסף באָװשאָװער
Other Names:	Basil Dahl, M. Turbov
Movement:	Anarcho-communism
Native Name Lang:	yi
Birth Date:	September 30, 1873
Birth Place:	Lyubavichi, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.

Joseph Bovshover (Yiddish: יוסף באָװשאָװער; Polish: Józef Bowszower; Russian: Иосиф Бовшовер; 1873–1915), also known as Yoysef Bovshover and under pseudonyms Basil Dahl and M. Turbov, was a Yiddish-language poet, essayist, and translator of Russian-Jewish descent. Emma Goldman described him as being a "high-strung and impulsive man of exceptional poetic gifts."^[1]

Selected works

• Poetishe verk (Yiddish: פּאָעטישע װערק; "Poetic works") (1903)
• Lider un gedikhte (Yiddish: לידער און געדיכטע; "Songs and poems") (1907)
• Bilder un gedanken (Yiddish: בילדער און געדאַנקען; "Pictures and ideas") (1907)
• Gezamlte shriftn: poezye un proze (Yiddish: געזאַמלטע שריפֿטן׃ פּאָעזיע און פּראָזע; "Collected writings: poetry and prose") (1911, reprinted in 1916)
• Shaylok (1911–1912)
• Geklibene lider (Yiddish: געקליבענע לידער; "Collected poems") (1918 and 1931)
• To the Toilers and Other Verses (1928)
• Lider (Yiddish: לידער; "Poems") (1930)
• Lider un dertseylungen (Yiddish: לידער און דערצײלונגען; "Poems and stories") (1939)

Further reading

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bovshover-joseph
• https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2017/07/joseph-bovshover.html

Notes and References

1. Web site: Living My Life/Volume 1 . Wikisource . 9 May 2021.