Thursday, 4 August 2016

YISROEL ZAKS (ISRAEL SACHS)

YISROEL ZAKS (ISRAEL SACHS)
            He came from Russia.  He lived a short time in Israel and in the late 1920s settled in Melbourne, Australia.  He published the pamphlet: Der oyfkum fun medines yisroel un di yeride fun hige tsienistishe manhigim (The rise of the state of Israel and the decline of local Zionist leaders) (Melbourne, 1949), 49 pp.  According to the author, he also published the pamphlets: Tsienizm, teritoryalizm mit a tropn bundizm (Zionist, territorialism with a drop of Bundism)[1] and Di farborgene soydes fun arum dem relif-fond (The hidden secrets from around the relief fund).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 258.




[1] WorldCat list this work as by Aad Haam but with a publication date of 1943 (long after his death) and place of publication as Melbourne.  Zaks may have been the translator into Yiddish or simply the publisher of the 1943 edition, though there is no mention of his name here.

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