ZELIK BERKOVITSH (SELEK BERKOWITZ)

ZELIK BERKOVITSH (SELEK BERKOWITZ) (March 18, 1912-1989)

            He was born in Kłobuck. Poland.  He lived in Lodz where he survived the ghetto and later concentration camps.  In 1946 he settled in Stockholm.  He co-edited Yidish kultur in skandinavyen (Jewish culture in Scandinavia) (Stockholm, issue no. 1, 1977).  From 1974 he brought out periodically two published sheets in Yiddish.  In book form: Opgenart di toytn (Deceiving the dead) (1972), 15 pp.; Mayn shtetl klobutsk, demonungen (My town Kłobuck, remembrances) (1975), 126 pp.; A shpatsir ibern shtetl (A walk through the town) (1981), 68 pp.  All the above works concerning Kłobuck were published in Stockholm.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 112.