anthology in the West (in Munich). He did not confirm nor deny their authorship. In his works Slutsky also approached Jewish themes, including material from the Jewish tradition, about antisemitism (including in Soviet society), the Holocaust, etc. He translated to Russian from the Yiddish poetry, e.g., from works of Leib Kvitko, Aron Vergelis, Shmuel Galkin, Asher Shvartsman, and Yakov Sternberg. He edited The Poets of Israel, a landmark publication considered the first anthology of Israeli poetry. It was published in 1963. One of his cousins was the Israeli general Meir Amit. Slutsky died 23 February 1986 in Tula, Russia. References External links Boris Slutsky. Poems Slutsky, Boris. Jewish Electronic Encyclopedia in Russian 1919 births 1986 deaths Soviet poets Jewish poets Soviet Jews in the military Ukrainian Jews Soviet Jews People from Sloviansk Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni