Tuesday 23 May 2017

YOYSEF LEVIN

YOYSEF LEVIN (b. ca. 1870)
            He was raised in Zlotopol (Zlatopil), Ukraine.  He attended religious elementary school.  By trade he worked as a tailor.  Just before WWI he came to the United States.  His books include: Fun der khasene (From the wedding), a life story (Brooklyn, 1932), 167 pp.; Fun nokh der khasene (From after the wedding) (New York, 1933), 184 pp.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 346-47.


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