YOYSEF GOLDKORN (July 11, 1912-September 23, 2000)
He was born in Wolbrom, Poland. He studied in religious elementary school,
yeshiva, and a secular school. In 1926
he moved to Sosnovits (Sosnowiec). From Poale Agudat Yisrael (Agudat Israel workers), he switched to
the Communists. During WWII he was in
Soviet Russia. In 1946 he moved to
Katowice, in 1964 to Warsaw, and in 1968 to Israel. He began writing in 1935 political articles
in illegal and semi-legal publications in Yiddish and Polish. Later, he published reportage pieces, current
events essays, and articles in Dos laye
lebn (The new life) in Warsaw and Lodz, Folks-shtime
(Voice of the people) in Warsaw (from 1952 he was on the editorial board), Letste nayes (Latest news) in Tel Aviv
(from 1969 he served on the editorial board), Bay zikh (On one’s own), Folk
(People), and Velt un medine (World
and nation) in Tel Aviv, among others.
In book form: Umgleyblekh un dokh…reportazhn
(Unbelievable and yet…, reportage pieces) (Tel Aviv: Leivik Farlag, 1981), 240
pp.;
Sources:
L. Brener, in Lebns-fragn (Tel Aviv)
(May-June 1981); Y. Kornhendler, in Letste
nayes (Tel Aviv) (June 12, 1981); Di
prese (Buenos Aires) (July 7, 1981); M. Yelin, in Yisroel shtime (Tel Aviv) (September 8, 1981); M. Shteynberg, in Yisroel shtiem (February 2, 1982).
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), cols. 139-40.
Ruvn Goldberg
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