Monday, 8 August 2016

YITSKHOK ZOHAR

YITSKHOK ZOHAR (b. January 31, 1906)
            He was born in Sotsheve, Ukraine.  He studied in religious primary schools and with the city rabbi.  He was among those deported to Transnitria.  After the war he lived in France.  Among his books, in Yiddish: Muzikalishe drames iber yisroel (Musical dramas about Israel) (Paris, 1970), 2 vols.; and in Hebrew, Beriv aḥim nafla yehuda (Judah fell in the fight among brothers) (Tel Aviv, 1983), 143 pp.; Beḥutsot yerushalayim (In the streets of Jerusalem) (Tel Aviv, 1983).  He left in manuscript the dramas: Dray kidushin fingerlekh (Three wedding rings), Motl der yoyred (Motl the impoverished man), Kibuts ḥolamot (Kibbutz of dreams), and Moshe hes (Moses Hess), among others.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 259.
Ezra Lahad


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