PINKHES
KATZ (b. ca. 1910)
He was born in Rezhitse (Rēzekne),
Dvinsk (Daugavpils) district, Latvia. He
moved to Riga while young. He studied in
a Yiddish-Hebrew school. He first
published a series of “provincial impressions” in Ovnt post (Evening mail) in Riga (1933), later contributing to Haynt (Today) also in Riga (1935-1939). In book form: Fareynzamte (All alone), with a few words about himself and his
writings (Riga, 1936), 22 pp.; Tserisene
klangen, roman (Shredded sounds, a novel) (Riga, 1936), 96 pp.; Af di khvalyes fun lebn, roman (On the
waves of life, a novel) (Riga, 1937), 143 pp., which was published earlier in
installments in Di idishe shtime (The
Jewish voice) in Kovno and in the afternoon Yiddish press in Poland. There has been no information about him since
the summer of 1939.
Source:
Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (October
29, 1937).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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