YISROEL
LEYZEROVITSH (b. 1899)
He was born in a town near Lodz,
Poland. He graduated from Warsaw
University and until WWII was a teacher in the Yiddish-Polish public school in
Lodz. He was a member of the
administration of the Jewish teachers’ union and of leftist cultural
institutions. He was an organizer of the
Esperanto exhibition in Poland in 1935.
He published translations from modern Yiddish literature in Esperanto
publications. He authored: Lernbukh fun der internatsyonaler shprakh esperanto
(Textbook of the international language Esperanto) (Lodz, 1926), 96 pp. There has been no further information about
him since WWII.
Sources:
Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo
(Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), p. 123; Khave Rozenfarb, introduction to Di balade fun nekhtikn vald (The ballad
of yesterday’s forest) (Montreal, 1948), p. 5.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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