DOVID
ELINOVITSH
He was born in Volpe (Wołpa),
Grodno region, Byelorussia, into a poor home.
From childhood he suffered from a deformed spinal chord. At age nineteen he moved to Vilna where he
studied photography and lived in poverty in a damp cellar, from which his weak
lungs were further ruined. At age
fifteen he began writing poetry about nature and provincial Jewish ways of
life. Among his poems there is a series
of fables entitled “Motye der yeshuvnik” (Motye the village Jew), a portion of
which was published in Unzder tog
(Our day) in Vilna. He died of
tuberculosis at the age twenty in Lune (Lunna), Grodno region. Three volumes of his writings remained after
his death. His father, Osher Elinovitsh,
appealed from Wołpa to Yiddish writers that they might become interested in the
literary legacy of his son who had passed away prematurely.
Source:
Leyzer Ran, 25 yor yung vilne
(Twenty-five years of Young Vilna) (New York, 1955).
Leyzer Ran
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