AVROM TREMBOVELSKI

AVROM TREMBOVELSKI (b. 1899)

            He was born in Chortkov (Chortkiv), eastern Galicia.  Over the years 1925-1939, he was a librarian in the local Y. L. Perets Library.  He lived thereafter in Lemberg, and from there during WWII he was evacuated to Uzbekistan where he worked on a collective farm and later in a village library.  From 1928 he served as the Galician correspondent for Vilner tog (Vilna day).  He contributed as well to Der morgn (The morning) in Lemberg, Der fraynd (The friend) in Warsaw, and elsewhere.  He published translations of Uzbeki folklore in Eynikeyt (Unity) in Moscow, Keneder odler (Canadian eagle) in Montreal, and other serials.  He brought out a pamphlet entitled Barikht fun der y. l. perets-biblyotek in tshortkov (Report of the Y. L. Perets Library in Chortkov), 16 pp.  It appears as though he remained in the Soviet Union.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen-arkhiv (Zalmen Reyzen archive) (New York, YIVO); catalogue of the performance “Dos yidishe shtetl in mizrekh-eyrope, 1900-1939” (The Jewish town in Eastern Europe, 1900-1939), no. 501א (YIVO, New York).

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