Chaim Grade

Chaim Grade
Chaim Grade
חיים גראַדע
	Grade in 1968
Born	April 4, 1910; Vilna, Russian Empire
Died	26 June 1982 (aged 72); The Bronx, New York, US
Resting place	Riverside Cemetery, New Jersey
Citizenship	Polish, Soviet, American
Occupations	Writer; poet;
	Writing career
Notable works	Musernikes; The Agunah; The Yeshiva;

Chaim Grade (GRAHD-uh; חיים גראַדע; April 4, 1910 – June 26, 1982) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century.

Grade was born in Vilna in the Russian Empire and died in The Bronx, New York. He is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, New Jersey.

Grade was raised Orthodox, and studied in a yeshiva as a teenager, but ended up with a secular outlook, in part due to his poetic ambitions. Losing his family in the Holocaust, he resettled in New York, and increasingly took to fiction, writing in Yiddish.