LEYBU
LEVIN (May 5, 1914-February 7, 1983)
He was a composer, born in
Kimpeling, Bukovine. From 1919 he was
living in Czernowitz. He studied there
in a teachers’ seminary. In 1942 he was
sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
From 1972 he was living in Israel.
He translated from German: Finf lider (Five songs) by the poetess Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger who was murdered
at a young age (Tel Aviv, 1977), 22 pp.; and Lider (Poems), also by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (Tel Aviv,
1978), 88 pp. He authored: In der velt fun gezangen, lider af yidish un
in ivrit, Beolam hazemer (In the world of song,
songs in Yiddish and in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv, 1980), 99 pp., in Yiddish and Hebrew
with Levin’s melodies. He also
translated from Romanian and Russian. He
died in Hertzliya.
Sources:
Chaim Gininger, in Di vokh
(Bucharest) (January 31, 1935); Y. Gelman, preface to In der velt fun gezungen; M. Vinkler, in Al hamishmar (Tel Aviv) (July 31, 1983); F. Vayninger, in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (March 4, 1983);
Leybu Levin, Shtrikhn tsu der geshtalt
fun a vortkinstler (Traits of the figure of a wordsmith) (Tel Aviv, 1981).
Ruvn Goldberg
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 347.
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