Tuesday, 9 August 2016

YANKEV-BER ZIBUNSKI

YANKEV-BER ZIBUNSKI (1892-1943)
            He was born in Warsaw, Poland.  For many years he worked as a typesetter for Haynt (Today) in Warsaw, in which he also published reviews of concerts and cantorial performances.  He was first in the Yiddish press in Poland to compile information on radio programming.  During WWII he was confined in the Warsaw Ghetto and there he died of hunger.

Sources: Kh. Finkelshteyn, in Fun noentn over (New York) 2 (1956), pp. 178, 210; B. Kutsher, Geven amol varshe (As Warsaw once was) (Paris, 1955), p. 158


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