FILIP (PHILIP) GORDON (1858-January 13, 1921)
He was born in Nayshtat (Novoe
Mesto), Vladislavov, Suwalki region. At
age twenty, he left for Sweden where he spent the majority of his life and was
active as a missionary. In 1901 he came
to Leipzig, where he became a member of the editorial board of the missionary
monthly Bris am (Covenant of the people) in Yiddish. He later published the same periodical in
Cracow, Budapest, Jassy (Iași), and finally in
Stockholm, Sweden. Aside from a number
of books in Swedish, he published in Yiddish an anthology entitled Kol
mevaser (Herald), “poems to uphold, instruct, and console” (Stockholm,
1915), 107 pp., in three parts: (1) “popular poems”; (2) “holidays”; and (3) “biblical
motifs.” These were light verses in a
pure Yiddish, but with Christian tendencies.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1.
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