Biography of Jacob Thaz

His father, Moses Khamovich Taich, was a famous journalist and writer. To feed his family, he traveled around cities and villages, reading his poems and stories. He also conducted active revolutionary work, for which he was arrested and put in the Warsaw prison. From an early age, Yakov Thaz read a lot, began to compose poems and fairy tales. In adolescence, he showed the ability to draw, and he was able to enter the Kharkov Art College.

He began his career in the printing house, where he was engaged in the manufacture of zinc cliches, from which illustrations in books and magazines were printed. In the year, the young man was called up for military service in the Red Army, served in the Far East in the border troops. At this time, he began to write small stories for children about army everyday life.

In the year, the works “The story of the signalist” and “History with the gas masks” were published by Pioneer. In addition, he proved himself as an artist, illustrating the stories of F. Kamanin and Yu. Soon the stories “The Offensive Team” and “The story of the signalist” were printed in the publishing house “Young Guard, and in the year the first collection of stories from the Red Army Life was“ Signalist ”, in which the Taiz concentrated his attention on the image of the inner world of ordinary soldiers.

In everyday, sometimes comic episodes, Thaz showed young readers an army, its daily work.

In the year, the story “New Machine” was published in Murzilka, which, according to the writer and literary critic, Evgenia Taratuta, struck with his freshness, a new independent voice. In the year, the magazine printed the stories “Tonya” and “Beans”, in which the young writer examined the problems of education, drew vivid images of children. Thaz; rice. Thaz; The drawings of V.

Polishchuk, collections of stories were soon published: “Anton and Antonovka”, “collar”, “Rudy Stone”, “Artek”, in which the writer taught his little readers to be attentive to the world and people, to see courage and courage in ordinary life. Yakov Moiseevich Thaz wrote about a hundred short stories. Their themes, plots, place of action are diverse. He wrote about the Civil and Great Patriotic War, about the life of children in a pioneer camp, a village, a city.

The autobiographical works of the Thais were popular: “Golden Group”, “Date”, “Still Life” and others. A collection of stories for the kids “Cube on a cube” with illustrations of the best Soviet artists withstood many reprints. Nowadays, the book published in the popular series of the Publishing House “Speech”: “Beloved mother’s Book”, “Pages-Severeniki”, “Favorite Children's Book”. A distinctive feature of all the stories of Jacob Thais is vitality and simplicity, almost a complete absence of negative characters.

They differ in great relevance of the problems posed. The readers want to put themselves in the place of his heroes and heroines, to believe that everything described by the author was actually. The life of the heroes of Jacob Thais is very similar to the life of real children with their little joys and griefs, resentment and victories, and therefore is interesting to the modern reader.

In addition to wonderful stories for younger students, Jacob Thaz is known as the author of the novels “Nakhodka” and “Rodnik” dedicated to the pages of Russian history. In the year, the adventure story “Under the Mount of Gedimin” saw the light, in which there are elements of secrets, romance. The book surprises with unexpected turns of the plot, bright imagery and subtle psychologism.

As a result of many years of work in children's literature, in the year I saw a collection of stories and the best stories of Jacob Thaz. His stories were also included in the collections of works by the best Soviet writers: “Children of our Motherland”, “October Star”, “Thus says the heart”. The impressions of childhood - the life of the Jewish poor, visiting the prison, where his father was sitting for revolutionary propaganda, his fascination with art and the dream of becoming an artist, the years of the Civil War - all this formed the basis of one of Yakov Moiseevich’s best books “Unquenchable Light”, published after his death.

The playwright and memoirist A. Brushtein noted: “The book“ Inanimate Light ”, the best of the books of Jacob Thais, captivates the reader by the fact that its author, cheerful and wise, gently loving people, restraining a bitter tear over their failures and misfortunes and a little good-naturedly laughing at their weaknesses.” Yakov Thaz tried himself in writing poetry and fairy tales for preschoolers.

The most fame was the collection of poems “Toys in the hut” and a collection of fairy tales “Smoke”. Short fairy tales, written like Russian folk, attract a large amount of metaphors, extraordinary and unusual images of heroes. Zvonareva, during the Great Patriotic War, the songs written on the poems of the Thais were widely known: “The Song of the Timurovites”, “By the road” “Sergeant”.

In the postwar years, the song "Sergeant" was still a drill song of pioneer detachments for a long time. Yakov Thaz is also known as a translator. He translated into Russian the story of L. Kvitko “Lim and Petrik”, a collection of stories I.In the year, the writer fulfilled the literary processing of the stories of the famous trainer and friend of animals V. Durov, who were included in the collection “My Beasts”, illustrated E.

Yakov Moiseevich Thaz, died on April 4 in Moscow. The writer is buried in the Don cemetery. The smart, sincere books of the writer do not age, they delight modern young readers. In the year, the New Year's fairy tale “Santa Claus” was published at the Melik-Pashaev publishing house. A fabulous story with touching drawings by A. Porot, perfectly combines fabulous folk rhymes with an intriguing, but easy and understandable plot for children.

And parents and educators note that a simple, good, without unnecessary moralizing and conclusions, the book performs the main function of the New Year's fairy tale - creates the atmosphere of the holiday. In the year, the collection of fairy tales “Oblast Rain” was seen, which included fairy tales from the “smoke” cycle and small stories from the obvious rain cycle. The collection caused many positive reviews, because the simple truths that Jacob Thaz writes about are not obsolete.

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