Tuesday, 26 April 2016

KH. VOROTITSKI (CHARLES WOROTISKY)

KH. VOROTITSKI (CHARLES WOROTISKY)
            He was born in the village of Burman, Grodno district.  He moved to the United States in 1921.  He was a musician by trade.  In the 1930s he began writing satirical poetry for Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), Feder (Pen), Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal), and other serials.  In book form: In geroysh fun beymer, lider (Among the rustling leaves, poems) (New York, 1971), 176 pp.  Among his pen names: Yat-Ebedam.  He also signed his name Vorotinski.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 233.


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