Monday 13 August 2018

Y. PERK


Y. PERK
            He was the author of Tanakh farn folk (Tanakh for the people) (Kaunas, 1939, 1940).  In the mid-1920s he came to Lithuania from Soviet Russia.  He lived in Kovno until 1941 and was a teacher there in a Tarbut school.  His subsequent fate remains unknown.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 434, 549.


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