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Yosef Kunovitch Burg (1912-2009) was a famous Jewish writer, the "last knight of Yiddish." He wrote a number of filigree prose books, including Over the Cheremosh (1939), Poison (1940), Life Goes On (1980), The Echo of Time (1983), The Delayed Echo (1990), Two Worlds (1997), Tangled Paths (1997), and others. The writer's name is widely known on many continents, and his stories, novels, documentary essays and essays have been repeatedly translated into different languages and published in many countries in separate editions. In 1997, J. Burg's book Flowers and Tears was published in Ukrainian. For his literary work, the writer was awarded the Gersh Segal (Israel) and Theodor Kramer (Austria) literary prizes. - The book "Song over Songs", published to mark the centenary of the writer's birth, contains selected samples of his narrative and essay prose.