AVROM
SILKES (b. June 8, 1918)
The brother of Genye Silkes, he was
born in Brisk (Brest), Lithuania. He
graduated from a Polish high school in Warsaw, where he lived until WWII. When the Germans were approaching Warsaw in
1939, he fled to Brisk, and later lived in Vitebsk, Tashkent, and
Chelyabinsk. He studied for a time at
the pedagogical institute in Vitebsk and later at the Tashkent Institute for
Foreign Languages. In 1946 he returned
to Poland and was a contributor to the archives of the Jewish Historical Institute. He subsequently moved to Paris and pursued literary
studies at the Sorbonne, while at the same time contributing to and for a time
serving as secretary for the journal Kiem
(Existence) in Paris. He began writing
for Unzer shtime (Our voice) in Paris
in 1952 and remained a contributor his whole life. He also placed work in: Unzer vort (Our word) and Arbeter-vort
(Workers’ word) in Paris; Loshn un lebn
(Language and life) in London; and Letste
nayes (Latest news) in Tel Aviv; as well as in the Francophone Jewish press
in Paris. In book form: A shtot afn bug (A city on the Bug
[River]) (Paris, 1963), 157 pp. He was
last living in Paris.
Source:
B. Sh. in Unzer shtime (Paris) (June
22-23, 1963).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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