In the fight against fate. The life and work of S.Y. Nadson
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Semyon Yakovlevich Nadson (1862 – 1887) was a Russian poet and essayist. He is noted for being the first Jewish poet to achieve national fame in Russia. Nadson's father was a minor official, the son of a baptized Jew, his mother was a home teacher, from the nobility. At the age of two, he lost his father. Growing up in a noble environment, Nadson from childhood was subjected to anti-Semitic insults in the family of an oppressive guardian uncle, who called the tears of a sickly, sensitive child "a Jewish rascal." In Autobiographical Notes (1880, published 1902) Nadson wrote that this kind of ridicule "insulted my father's memory in me with inhuman cruelty." His solidarity with the Jewish people during the period “when the very name“ Jew ”in the mouths of the crowd sounds like a symbol of rejection”, Nadson captured in the poem “I grew up as a stranger to you, a rejected people” (1885, published in the collection “Help to Jews who suffered from poor harvest ", St. Petersburg, 1901).
