MIKHL ZILBERBERG (MICHAEL ZYLBERBERG)

MIKHL ZILBERBERG (MICHAEL ZYLBERBERG) (d. October 23, 1971)

            He was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto.  He moved to London around 1947, and there was a lecturer in Jewish history and literature.  He wrote journalistic articles in: Loshn un lebn (Language and life) in London; and Forverts (Forward) in New York, in which he published A togbukh vegn lebn un laydn fun yidn in poyln (A diary of living and suffering of Jews in Poland).  It appeared in English under the title A Warsaw Diary, 1939-1945 (London, 1969), 220 pp., as well as in Hebrew [translated by Ari Avner] and Dutch [translated by Hanna Nouwen].  Together with M. Tsanin, he prepared for publication Briv fun sholem ash (The letters of Sholem Asch) (Bet-Yam, 1980), 302 pp.  He died in London.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 261-62.