KHAYIM
ZAYDMAN (CHAJIM ZAIDMAN) (b. September 26, 1898)
He was born in Hârlău, Romania. From
1920 he was a bookkeeper in Bucharest.
After WWII he was one of the founders of IKUF (Jewish Cultural
Association). From 1964 he edited the
Yiddish section of the trilingual Tsaytshrift
(Periodical) in Bucharest. In 1970 he
settled in Jerusalem. Zaydman’s 1957
Romanian translation of Perets’s stories were published with his name in 1974,
when he was already living in Israel. In
book form: Der khoyv fun zikorn, mayn
moldevish shtetl harlui (The duty of memory, my Moldavia town of Hârlău), with a preface by Dov Sadan (Jerusalem, 1982),
398 pp.
Y. Kara
Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 261.
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