YANKEV-TSVI
LEMEL (1901-May 25, 1964)
He was born in Sosnovits
(Sosnowiec), Poland. Until age ten he
attended religious elementary school, and then losing his father, he had to
become a worker. In 1919 he moved to
Belgium, settled in Antwerp where for a time he worked as a private Yiddish
tutor and later as a salesman. During
the years of the Nazi occupation, he lived in various places in Flanders,
mainly in the town of Laar (Laere). He
returned to Antwerp in 1945. He debuted
in print with a story—“A vinter-rayze” (A winter journey)—in Di yudishe prese (The Jewish press) in
Antwerp (1923), edited by Dr. A. Kubovitski, and from that point he went on to
publish stories and correspondence pieces on Jewish life in Belgium in: Yidishe prese (Jewish press), Belgishe bleter (Belgium leaves), and Izraelitish vokhnblat (Jewish weekly
newspaper) in Antwerp; Yidishe vokh
(Jewish week), Belgishe tog (Belgian
day), and Unzer vort (Our word) in Brussels;
Unzer haynt (Our today) and Yisroel shtime (Voice of Israel) in Tel
Aviv; Unzer vort (Our word) in Paris;
and Der tog (The day), Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal), and Der amerikaner (The American) in New York;
among others. In book form he published:
Teg fun shrek, derinerungen fun der
milkhome, 1940-1945 (Days of horror, experiences from the war, 1940-1945)
(Paris, 1962), 229 pp. He was awarded
the 1961 prize from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
He also wrote under such pen names as: Y. Rivkes. He died in Antwerp.
Sources:
D. M., in Der amerikaner (New York) (June 22, 1959); Khayim Leyb Fuks, “Beynish
Zilbershteyn,” in Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur (see: http://yleksikon.blogspot.ca/2016/08/beynish-zilbershteyn-bajnysz.html).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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