MOTL
PSHENITSA (1908-1941?)
He was born in Radzin (Radzyń),
Poland. He attended a Tarbut school and
later worked in tailoring in Warsaw. He
published poems, stories, and reportage pieces in Warsaw’s Yugnt veker (Youth alarm), Naye
folkstsaytung (New people’s newspaper), Vokhnblat
far literatur (Weekly writing for literature), and Foroys (Onward), among other serials. In book form: Payn (Anguish), stories (Warsaw, 1939), 96 pp. He also left in manuscript a volume of
poems. He was killed by the Germans
during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Sources:
“Literatur khronik” (Literary chronicle), Foroys
(Warsaw) (July 7, 1939); P. Shvarts, in Fun
noentn over (New York) 2 (1956), p. 430; Folksstime (Warsaw) (February 26, 1959); information from his
brother Avrom, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Benyomen Elis
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