MIKHAIL EISENSTADT-JELEZNOV (M. K. ARGUS) (June 17,
1900-1970)
Born in Shchedrin, Byelorussia. He graduated from the Real-shule in
Novgorod. In 1920 he wrote feature
pieces for Dos folk (The people) and Cevodnya (Today) in
Riga. In 1922 he moved to the United
States. He published poems in Dos
naye lebn (The new life) which was edited by Chaim Zhitlovsky and Shmuel
Niger, and later on for Tsukunft (Future). His books (published under the name Argus)
include: Vostochnyi geroi (Eastern hero), satirical Russian poems; Moscow
on the Hudson and A Rogue with Ease, satirical stories in English;
and from 1936 on he was a regular contributor to Novoe russkoe slovo
(New Russian word) in New York.
Source:
Anna Margolin, Dos yidishe lid in amerike (The Yiddish poem in America)
(New York, 1923).
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