BEN-TSVI BERNSHTEYN (BEN-ZVI BERNSTEIN)

BEN-TSVI BERNSHTEYN (BEN-ZVI BERNSTEIN) (d. ca. 1981)

            He was born in Premishlan (Peremyshlyany), Galicia.  He studied in religious elementary school.  He survived Hitler’s Holocaust, and then emigrated to London, later making aliya to Israel.  In book form: Zikhroynes un geshtaltn (Memoirs and images) (London-Tel Aviv, 1962, 1982), 2 vols.  In Hebrew: Hahagada haḥadasha (The new Hagadah) (London, 1944); Temunot meḥaye amenu (Images from our lives) (London, 1948).  He died in Netanya, Israel.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 110.