B. HILKOVITS

B. HILKOVITS

            He was the author of popular novels.  He lived in New York at the end of the nineteenth century.  Among his works: Di eyngemoyerte froy, a roman (The walled in woman, a novel), “a truly interesting novel from life” (Chicago: Liskin, 1896/1897), 269 pp.; Shtarker vi ayzn (Stronger than iron); Ketten un kronen oder shvartse kunst (Chains and crowns or the black art), a novel by Albert Emil Brachvogel, adapted by Hilkovits (New York, 1896)., 496 pp.; and others.  Biographical information remains unknown.

Sources: Elye Shulman, in Yorbukh fun amopteyl (Annual from the American branch [of YIVO]), vol. 1 (New York, 1938); Geshikhte fun der yidisher literatur in amerike (History of Yiddish literature in America) (New York, 1943), p. 90; Leye Mishkin, in Pinkes shikago (Records of Chicago) (1951/1952).

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 219.]