ALEKSANDER BITELMAN (ALEXANDER BITTELMAN)

ALEKSANDER BITELMAN (ALEXANDER BITTELMAN) (January 4, 1890-April 1982)

           He was born in Odessa and until age ten he studied in religious elementary school, thereafter in a state school.  In 1911 he emigrated to the United States, where he graduated from a technical school.  His journalist activities began in Russian.  In Yiddish his first publication was a political article in Di naye velt (The new world) (New York, 1916-1917).  In 1918 he edited Kamf (Struggle) and in 1919-1920 the Communist Di funken (The sparks); in 1920-1921 he co-edited the Communist weekly newspaper Frayhayt (Freedom) and later Morgn frayhayt (Morning freedom).  In book form: Dos idishe folk vet lebn! (The people will live!) (New York: Morgn-frayhayt, 1944), 55 pp.; Idishe folks-eynikeyt (Jewish people’s unity) (New York: Morgn-frayhayt, 1948), 48 pp.  He died in New York.

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 80.