A.
Y. LIPMANOVITSH (1910-1943)
The literary name of Leybush Heler,
he was born in Kolomaye, Galicia, the son of Lipo Heler, a manufacturer of
prayer shawls. He published sketches and
miniatures in Lodz’s Beys-yankev zhurnal
(Beys Yankev journal). He also wrote in
Hebrew for Warsaw’s Deglanu (Our
banner). For a long time he lived in
Lemberg, where he was engaged in business and was an Orthodox leader. He was confined in the Lemberg ghetto, from
which he was deported (summer 1942) to the Bełżec death camp and murdered there.
Source:
M. Prager, Antologye fun religyeze lider un dertseylungen (Anthology of religious poems and stories) (New York, 1955),
see index.
Yankev Kahan
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