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Aleksander Wat

Died in 1967

Aleksander Wat (1900-1967), born Chwat in Warsaw, the son of a scholar versed in the Talmud, studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw and in 1918 founded, with Anatol Stern, the city's futurist group, before contributing to the journal Miesięcznik Literacki; for a time he was a communist. Arrested in 1940 by the Soviet police, he remained detained in the Soviet Union until 1946, and his family experienced exile in Kazakhstan. Returning to Poland, he went over to the West in the late fifties and died in Antony, near Paris, on 29 July 1967.

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