LEON BILMES

LEON BILMES (1900-October 30, 1962)

            He was born in Holoskov (Holoskove), Ukraine, and emigrated to the United States in the 1920s.  He lived in New York and from 1949 in Los Angeles.  His work appeared in American Jewish publications.  In book form: Amol iz geven a shtetl (There was once a town) (Tel Aviv, 1963), 212 pp.  He died in Los Angeles.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 82-83.