MENAKHEM
HELBERG (1905-March 15, 1926)
He was born in Pinsk, Byelorussia,
into a well-to-do family. He received
both a Jewish and a general education. He
moved to Slonim, Grodno district, in 1917.
He graduated from a Hebrew school and studied at the Wszechnica Polska
University in Warsaw. He contributed to:
Haynt (Today) and Arbeter tsaytung (Workers’ newspaper) in
Warsaw; Slonimer vort (Slonim word);
and other serials. In book form: Lider (Poetry) (Slonim, 1926), 32
pp. Soon after the book appeared in
print, he committed suicide in Slonim.
Sources:
Slonimer vort (November 1926); Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo
(Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928); information from Hekht’s
sister, Neḥama
Rafalovitsh in Tel Aviv.
[Additional information
from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 221.]
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