E. IZRA

E. IZRA

He lived in Kiev and wrote works of popular scholarship for children. His books include: Tsayg, di geshikhte fun tsitsn hemdl (Fabric, the history of a calico shirt) (Kiev, 1928), 77 pp.; Fun feld tsum tish, geshikhte fun a shtikl broyt (From field to table, history of a piece of bread) (Kiev, 1928), 101 pp.; Shikh un kaloshn, fun vos un vi azoy vern zey oysgearbet (Shoes and galoshes, from what and how they are manufactured) (Kiev, 1928), 72 pp.  These may have been translations from Russian.

[Additional information from: Chaim Beider, Leksikon fun yidishe shrayber in ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York: Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011), p. 16.]