Jiří Kan was born in Riga, Latvia. His surname originally appeared in the German form Kann; he dropped one of the “n”s. In Prague, on 3 November 1932, he changed his original name from Jsakij Kagan-Kan to Jiří Kan.
He also sought to change his nationality, but this was refused by Czechoslovakia in the same year. He appears to have acquired Czechoslovak citizenship at a later date. No religious affiliation is recorded for him. He was married to a Czech woman, had a daughter, and his mother tongue was Russian.
Only two works created in collaboration with František Libra in what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia are recorded. In 1918 he moved to Prague, where he worked with Libra, and in 1944 he was murdered in the Auschwitz–Buchenwald concentration camp.
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