Born in 1929 in the shtetl of Janova, an almost entirely Jewish village just north of Kaunas, the writer and his family escaped the Holocaust in Soviet-controlled Central Asia
In more than 30 plays and screenplays, a dozen novels and several collections of poems and short stories, Kanovich captured the community’s pre-war shtetl days and their daily realities as part of the Soviet Union.
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Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93 jta.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jta.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.