Monday, 1 February 2016

AZARYE DOBRUSHKES

AZARYE DOBRUSHKES (b. September 5, 1912)
            He was born in Vilna.  He studied in public school and graduated from the Vilna senior high school.  In 1934 he received his diploma as a construction engineer in France.  Over the years 1935-1940, he was living in Vilna and Luninets.  During WWII he was in Soviet Russia.  From 1947 he was in Belgium.  He was an active assistant and collector for YIVO from its inception.  He wrote from time to time in Pinkes (Records) in Tel Aviv (1971), Unzer vort (Our word) and Arbeter-vort (Workers’ word) in Paris, Yugntruf (Appeal to youth) in New York, Dorem-Afrike (South Africa) in Johannesburg, Obheyb (Beginning) in Miami Beach, and Afn shvel (At the threshold) in New York.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 184-85.


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