PEYSI
YANOVSKI (1914-1972)
He was born in Zhitomir,
Ukraine. In 1931 he graduated from the
teachers’ training course at the Zhitomir Pedagogical Technical School and left
for Birobidzhan. Over the years
1939-1946, he was an officer in the Red Army and took part in WWII. He began publishing in 1933, placing work in:
Zay greyt (Get ready), Yunge gvardye (Young guard), Birebidzhaner shtern (Birobidzhan star),
Kinder shafung (Children’s creation),
and Horizontn (Horizons). He was last working as a journalist in
Perm. He placed poems in Soveitsh heymland (Soviet homeland) 1
(July-August 1961).
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 293.]
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