Yefim Krimerman

Yefim Krimerman in 1923 - 2015) was a Sovyet Bessarabian poet, lyricist and journalist in Romanian language. In 1980 emigrated for short time to Israel, and then settled in Germany. There worked at Free Europe radio uder the pseudonym Grigore Singurel

Biography
Yefim Krimerman was born in Bălţi, in 1923 in a Jewish family. He graduated from the Philological Faculty of Moldova State University. Singurel worked as a lecturer and musicologist of the Moldavan State Philharmonic Society. In 1980 he moved to Israel, but soon moved to Munich, where he worked for Radio Free Europe.

Works

 * Grigore Singurel, Moldavia on the Barricades of Perestroika, 1989

Lyrics for songs

 * De ce plâng chitarele? (1969)
 * Cântă un artist (1969)
 * Pe strada însorită (1969) (composer Arkady Luxemburg)
 * Fără tine (1969) (composer Arkady Luxemburg)