TSVI
YAKUBOVITSH (b. November 11, 1903)
He was born in Sochaczew, near
Warsaw, Poland. In his youth he moved
with his parents to Belgium. He
graduated from high school in Brussels and studied engineering at the technical
school in London. He published
impressions from a voyage across Russia in the French-language periodical Limiere in Antwerp (1923). From 1925 he was writing in Yiddish as
well. He was the Belgian correspondent
for Parizer haynt (Paris today)
(1926-1928). Over the years 1925-1940,
he edited the weekly newspaper Yidishe
prese (Jewish press) in Antwerp. He
was the author of plays (in both French and Yiddish): Madam paglyatshi (Madame Pagliacci) which was staged in New York
and Latin America by Samuel Goldenberg and Jennie Goldstein (1932-1933); Kolon de fe (Antwerp, 1934), 96 pp. He translated into Flemish Perets Hirshbeyn’s
Grine felder (Green Fields). He also wrote under the name “Tsvir.” He was last living in Brussels, Belgium.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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