ABEL
YARMUSH (JARMUSZ) (1893-August 22, 1969)
He was born in Koyl (Kolo),
Poland. In 1923 he moved to Kalish
(Kalisz) in Galicia. In 1939 he made his
way to Bolivia. He debuted in print in
1915 in the humorous weekly newspaper, Der
frayer foygl (The free bird) in Warsaw.
He wrote humorous sketches, theatrical reviews, and literary articles
in: Unzer ekspres (Our express) in
Warsaw, the weekly Kalisher lebn
(Kalisz life), Kalisher vokh (Kalisz
week), Der veg (The way) in Mexico
City, Dos yidishe vort (The Jewish
word) in Chile, Ilustrirte literarishe bleter
(Illustrated literary leaves) in Buenos Aires, Haynt (Today) in Uruguay, and from 1941 he was a regular
contributor to Di prese (The press)
in Buenos Aires. In book form: Fun tsey heymen, bilder un felyetonen (From
two homes, images and features) (Buenos Aires, 1965), 140 pp. He died in La Paz, Bolivia
Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), cols. 297-98.
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