NOSN BERGER

NOSN (NATHAN) BERGER (July 5, 1910-September 17, 1987)

            He was born in Keydan (Kėdainiai), Lithuania.  He studied in religious elementary school and graduated from a pro-gymnasium.  He worked in typesetting in Keydan, Kovno, and Johannesburg, where he settled in 1930.  He wrote often for Afrikaner idishe tsaytung (African Jewish newspaper), and he brought out the period poem Baym rand fun gold (At the edge of gold) (Johannesburg, 1966), 48 pp.  He was also the author of three books in English.  He co-founded the printer Pacific Press, through which his publisher Kayor in its thirty years of existence brought out almost all Yiddish and Hebrew books in South Africa.

Sources: D. Volpe, in Yontef bleter (Johannesburg) (Hanukkah, 1967); Y. Okrutni, in Idishe tsaytung (Buenos Aires) (August 25, 1967); D. Fram, in Afrikaner idishe tsaytung (Johannesburg) (Rosh Hashana, 1977).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 106.