YITSKHOK
VAYNGARTN (ICHAK WAJNGARTEN) (March 15, 1908-November 9, 1984)
He was born in Biała Podlaska, Poland. He graduated from a Tarbut school in
Rafalovke (Rafalivka), Ukraine. During
WWII, he was in Soviet camps. In 1946 he
came to Poland where he contributed to the daily newspaper Unzer vort (Our word). In
1974 he made aliya to Israel. He
published articles and poems in Letste
nayes (Latest news) in Tel Aviv, Kheshbn
(The score) in Los Angeles, and in English in Midstream, among others. His
books include: Fun bug biz pyetshora
(From the Bug to the Pieczora), using the pen name “Y. Yekhiels” (Tel Aviv,
1968), 217 pp. (Hebrew translation: Ben
shene neharot [Tel Aviv, 1977]); Goralo
shel adam, roman (Man’s fate, a novel) (Tel Aviv, 1979), 253 pp., a Hebrew
translation by Pinḥas
Lander. He died in Bat Yam.
Sources:
Sh. Shveytser, in Arbeter-vort
(Paris) (December 16, 1966); Sh. K[ants], in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (July 24, 1981).
Ruvn Goldberg
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 238.
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