Rapoport Iegusha (Jeguscha) (1895, Białystok, Grodno Governorate — 1971, Melbourne, Australia) — literary critic, translator. Received home education.
From 1922 Iegusha Rapoport studied in Berlin; lived in Riga, Warsaw, and later in Australia. In 1921 published articles on socio-cultural topics, literary-critical works, and translations from world literature in the Białystok newspaper Dos naye lebn. Contributed to Jewish periodicals in Riga, Vilnius, Warsaw, London, Paris, and Australia.
Rapoport’s first book (Warsaw, 1931) was a literary review and assessment of the Warsaw weekly Literarishe bleter. Separate editions of his works on the poetry of L. Ignatov, Sh. Ash, and others were also published. Among his critical-theoretical works are the two-volume Oyf di vegn fun der nayer eyropeisher literatur (“On the Paths of the New European Literature”, 1936–37), Heymishe geshtaltn (“Native Figures”, Warsaw, 1949), Ershter shnit nokhn shturem (“First Harvest after the Storm”, Warsaw, 1948), Zoymen in vint (“Seeds in the Wind”, 1961), Fayerlekh in nepl (“Lights in the Fog”, Buenos Aires, 1961), and others. Rapoport translated from English, French, Russian, and German (E. Sinclair, R. Tagore, R. Rolland, L. N. Seifullina, M. Andersen Nexø, among others).