YISROEL
HAKOHEN LIPSKI
He was born in Kuznitse
(Kurenets), Poland. He attended
religious primary schools and yeshivas, later becoming a follower of the Jewish
Enlightenment; he founded a private children’s school in Kovel (Kovle), and he later
moved it to Bialystok. He was the teller
of jokes and aphorisms. He was a member
of the Bialystok Jewish literary circle.
He published in Hebrew: Mikhtavim veḥidudim
(Letters and jokes) (Warsaw, 1901/1902), 64 pp.; Ezrat yisrael (Israel’s help) (Bialystok, 1929/1930), 158 + 70 pp.;
Sipure shaashuim (Entertainment
stories) (Warsaw, 1898), 122 pp., popular stories and anecdotes. In Yiddish: A bukh mit glaykhvertlekh (A book with aphorisms). He wrote articles and humorous sketches for: Byalistoker shtime (Voice of Bialystok),
Dos naye lebn (The new life), and Undzer lebn (Our life). Further information about him remains unknown.
Sources:
Byalistoker shtime (New York) (October 1924); Byalistoker leksikon (Bialystok
handbook) (Bialystok, 1935); P. Vyernik, in Morgn-zhurnal
(New York) (January 15, 1935); A. Sh. Hershberg, in Pinkes byalistok (Records of Bialystok), vol. 1 (New York, 1949).
Yankev Kahan
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