Belarusian Jewish writer

Ryhor Reles (Belarusian: Рыгор Рэлес, Russian: Гирш Релес; April 23, 1913 – September 19, 2004), a Jewish-Belarusian writer, was one of the last writers in Belarus that wrote in Yiddish.He was born in 1913 in Chashniki, Vitebsk region, studied pedagogy at the Vitebsk pedagogical ins*ute, then studied Yiddish philology in Minsk. His first poem was published in a Soviet Jewish newspaper en*led "Junger Arbeiter" in 1931. He wrote poems and prose in Yiddish and also several poems in Russian. Most of his works were translated and published in Belarusian.