AKIVA GERSHATER

AKIVA GERSHATER (1888-1972)

            He was born in Vilna.  He attended religious elementary school and a Russian high school.  He was a bookkeeper.  He survived the Vilna ghetto.  After two years in Paris, he made aliya to Israel in 1949.  He lived in Ḥolon.  Among his books: Fotografishe balaykhtungs-tabeles mit oysfirlekhe derklerungen (Photographic illumination charts with detailed explanations) (Vilna, 1929), 59 pp.  He died in Ḥolon.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 166-67.