DOVID
VILKIN (b. June 9, 1909)
He was born in Riga and attended
Riga’s Yiddish-Hebrew high school. He
studied electrical engineering in Paris.
In 1929 he immigrated to South Africa.
There he wrote for: Afrikaner
idishe tsaytung (African Jewish newspaper), Yontef bleter (Holiday sheets), and Dorem-afrike (South Africa) in which he also published articles of
literary criticism. Among his books: Shtimung-lider (Mood poems)
(Johannesburg: Kayor, 1975), 141 pp.
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 247.
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