YOYSEF-AVROM
POLIVA (January 21, 1899-March 17, 1977)
He was born in Korets, Ukraine. He studied in religious elementary schools
and secular schools. He graduated from a
teachers’ course of study in Warsaw and a technical senior high school in the
land of Israel, and worked as a schoolteacher in Tarbut schools. In 1933 he came to Israel and became assistant
secretary of the Jewish Agency in Haifa.
In 1927 he moved to South Africa and worked there as a teacher in Hebrew
schools. He contributed to: Yeda am (Folklore) and Kiryat sefer (Library) in Israel; Yontef bleter (Holiday sheets) and Afrikaner yidishe tsaytung (African
Jewish newspaper) in South Africa; and Keneder
odler (Canadian eagle) in Montreal; among other serials. He published a book in English: A Short History of the Jewish Press and Literature
of South Africa from Its Earliest Days until the Present Time
(Johannesburg: Prompt Printing Co., 1964), 130 pp. Among his pen names: Aharoni and Yatsakni. From 1964 he was living in Israel. He died in Pardes Katz [neighborhood in
northern Bnei Brak].
Source:
Y. Papyernikov, Heymishe un noente
(Familiar and close) (Tel Aviv, 1958), pp. 144-45.
Yankev Kahan
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