Wednesday, 11 May 2016

FAYVL (PHILIP) VEYMAN

FAYVL (PHILIP) VEYMAN
            He was born in Mohilev, Byelorussia.  He studied in religious elementary school and in a public school, later working with his father as a tailor.  He subsequently lived in Vienna, Paris, and Chicago.  From 1917 he published poetry in such Chicago publications as: Kalmen Marmor’s daily Velt (World), Idishe arbayter velt (Jewish world of labor), Idisher rekord (Jewish record), Idishe prese (Jewish press), and the anthology In nepl (In fog), among others

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1.


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