ARYE
(LEON) GLEZER (b. May 15, 1895)
He was born in Vilna, Lithuania,
into a well-to-do family. He received a
traditional Jewish education. He
graduated from a Russian high school and studied law at Odessa University and
music at the local state conservatory.
He was an officer for a number of years in the Russian army, and during
the Kerensky period he assumed the position of a judge in Odessa. He took part in the fight against Petliura and
other anti-Semites in Ukraine. From 1921
to 1937 he lived in Israel, where he was among the founders of the Kadima
agricultural settlement, the active fighters in the Hagana during the Arab
pogrom in 192, and he was seriously wounded at that time. From 1947 he was living in the United
States. He began writing in Russian and
debuted in Novyi Golos (New voice) in
Vilna. He later placed pieces in the
Russian-, German-, and English-language press.
In America, he switched to Yiddish.
He published articles, impressions, travelogues, and memoirs which
depicted both the general and the Jewish life in Russia during the Revolution,
in Israel, and in other countries—in Tog
(Day) and Nyu-yorker vokhnblat (New
York weekly newspaper) in New York, Di
tsayt (The times) in London, and Keneder
odler (Canadian eagle) in Montreal, in which he also published serially his
“Lebn-bashraybung fun a revolutsyoner” (Life description of a revolutionary),
which was subsequently published as a book: Fun
moskve biz yerusholaim: a lebn-bashraybung fun a revolutsyoner (From Moscow
to Jerusalem, a life description of a revolutionary) (New York, 1938), 208 pp.,
translated from the German by Yitskhok Zinger, with prefaces by A. Harkavy, Max
Brod, and Dr. Moses Gaster. He was
living in New York.
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