KHAYIM-MOYSHE
ZILBERSHTEYN
He was born in Orle (Orla, Orli),
near Bialystok, Russian Poland. The son
of a rabbi, he studied in religious elementary schools, in the Volozhin
Yeshiva, as well as secular subject matter.
From the yeshiva he sent correspondence pieces to: Hamelits (The advocate), Hatsfira
(The siren), and Hazman (The
time). He contributed as well to Russian
newspapers. In 1913 he published Yiddish
poems in Byalistoker vort (Bialystok
word), and he was for many year a contributor to Dos naye lebn (The new life) in Bialystok. He was a leader of Tarbut and of the Zionist
organization in Gonyondz (Goniądz), near Bialystok. He was murdered by the Nazis during WWII.
Sources:
Byalistoker almanakh (Bialystok almanac)
(Bialystok, 1931); Byalistoker leksikon
(Bialystok handbook) (Bialystok 1935).
Yankev Kahan
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