AVROM-LEYB
HENDIN (November 25, 1895-May 22, 1989)
He wrote under the name L.
Hendin. He was born in Surazh, Chernigov
district, Ukraine, where his father, Henekh, was an assistant lawyer. He studied in a Russian public school and in a
“cheder metukan” (improved religious elementary school). In 1913 he moved to the United States. He lived in Baltimore where he ran cultural
activities among Jewish workers. He
graduated from the school of dentistry in Baltimore. He began his journalistic work in the Jewish
socialist press. After settling in New
York, he contributed as a lecturer and journalist to ideological struggles that
were then current in the Jewish labor movement.
In connection with these fights, he wrote a series of pamphlets. From 1934 he was a regular contributor to Forverts (Forward) in New York, for
which he wrote about economic and political issues. Over the years 1942-1951, he was president of
the Y.-L. Peretz Writers’ Union and was elected a second time to this position
in 1956. He visited the state of Israel
in 1950 as a representative of Yiddish journalists in America and with the aim
of negotiating with the Hebrew journalists’ association concerning the founding
of a world union of Jewish journalists. In
addition, he was active in the Jewish socialist movement. He lived until his death in New York.
Source:
Y. Shmulevitsh, in Forverts (New
York) (January 9, 1959).
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