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Leivik (Leon) Chanukoff (February 3, 1893-September 24, 1958) was a Yiddish-language writer and sculptor.

Biography
Chanukoff was born in Olchovo, Russia and immigrated to America in 1914. He began writing in Russian before switching to Yiddish around 1916. In 1934, Abraham Aaron Roback described him and Baruch Glasman, as the two best young Yiddish writers working at that time.