Tuesday 31 July 2018

NATAN PERSKI (PERSKY)


NATAN PERSKI (PERSKY) (b. 1909)
            He was born in the town of Podbrod (Pabrade), near Vilna.  He graduated from the Vilna Hebrew teachers’ seminary, and thereafter, until 1935, he was a teacher in Vilna, Grodno, and Warsaw.  He began writing lyrical poetry in Di tsayt (The times) in Vilna (1928), and later he contributed to: the anthologies Ershter shnit (First cut) (1929-1932), Literarishe bleter (Literary leaves), Haynt (Today), and Dos vort (The word), among others, in Warsaw; Tsukunft (Future) in New York; and elsewhere.  From 1935 he was living in the land of Israel.  He was a teacher and worker at a series of Hebrew pedagogical institutes in the state of Israel.  He authored the textbooks: Mikraot yisrael (Reading about Israel), with S. Z. Ariel and M. Blikh (Jerusalem, 1955/1956-); Toledot yisrael (History of Israel), with B. Avivi (Tel Aviv, 1952-).  He was last living in Tel Aviv, administrator of a high school. 

Sources: Sh. Zaromb, in Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (September 24, 1929); N. Mayzil, in Haynt (Warsaw) (July 5, 1935); Shmerke katsherginski-ondenk-bukh (Memorial volume for Shmerke Katsherginski) (Buenos Aires, 1955), p. 333; Y. Yeshurin, in Tsukunft (New York) (December 1962).
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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