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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